Life is full – robinchartier

I guess I skipped the entire month of August. Oops. No worries. It can be summed up in a few words:

storage shipment

jet lag

school/work/sleep

The month began with my 9 year old storage shipment of 7 huge crates plus oversized items, weighing in at 8,000 lbs, being dropped off while Josh and the boys were all scuba diving. Of course our final military move would suffer the same kind of scheduling issues that occurred during every other PCS over our 21 years. But we had paid for 2 large storage units to house it all and the movers were fantastic. As tetris experts, they pieced it all together and left me with a puzzle to figure out over the next 7 days. How to get rid of all of this stuff?!

Thankfully I had a great helper — we worked while the guys were getting their scuba certification each morning and then they’d come home and we’d all work some more. With the help of my mom and dad, 362 trips to Goodwill, and kids who were willing to let things go, we got through the entire load in 1 week.

I spent the days unpacking, sorting, and transporting the big items and the evenings sorting through photos. I kept a few, but often just snapped a photo of ones that I liked and tossed the hard copy. I was under a time crunch because the storage units cost $800/month and I wasn’t going to shoulder that expense all year!

The day before we left, I had it pared down to a few storage bins and our bikes. Then my hero Joe came to take the rest away. (Bless Yelp and all his good reviews for helping me find him!)

Toss it all and hop on a plane! Josh stayed behind in the US to work for another week, but I had to get back to start work myself. Basically the past two weeks has been work, come home, eat dinner and crash. Wake up at the crack of dawn and repeat. As soon as we got ourselves sorted, Josh came home and had to struggle through the body clock wars.