You know when I compared the move to childbirth? If this were one of my kids, we’d call today Carter. Tons of lead time, lots of waiting, and then, BAM! Doctors scrambling, nurses flying down the hall, and no one prepared for how fast everything is happening. That was my day. It’s the best kind of move (as long as the packers are doing a good job), but it’s a full day’s work keeping ahead of them.
They showed up 45 minutes early (yay) while I was at church and by the time I got home at 10am so Josh could head to second service, our downstairs was wall to wall cardboard and taped up boxes. I was just in time to keep them from packing the dishes that belong to the embassy that I had set aside, but hadn’t labeled yet.
From there the day was a blur. We went through the house and tagged everything that wasn’t supposed to be packed with neon tape, cleared out all the junk drawers, tossed odds and ends that had previously escaped my notice, and consolidated like items all afternoon (books with books, musical instruments together, all toys in Camille’s room, etc).
Oops, someone forgot to take their shoes off the shoe rack before the packers arrived and by the time we noticed, there were only taped up boxes in their place. She had a few worried tears until Daddy went on a recovery mission and found them for her.
Watching World Cup in the safe room with the pets.
They packed up the entire house today except for my bedroom. Everything. Including the dog food that I was going to feed Micah over the next 2 days. Oh well. He’s getting leftovers from the freezer and Josh and the boys grabbed a few cans of dog food to get him through until Monday.
Tonight after they left, we moved all of our suitcases and summer storage items (that we’ll keep in my car) into a different safe room and they will finish up tomorrow. The movers are scheduled through Sunday, but won’t need it unless it switches to a Calvin type of move and everything stops and stretches out over several days where we sit around waiting for something to happen without any food (love you, Calvin! #worthit).
