On Moving Back

The last few weeks have just passed by like a dream. My mind has been racing in a hundred different directions making lists and pondering the logistics of this move. There are just so many details involved in a venture such as this that you feel like you're adrift in a sea of priorities and you really wonder how it's all going to get done, but I have faith that it will all get done...it has to.


The movers arrived yesterday morning to begin packing our life into cardboard boxes. They knocked on the door at 8:45am. They weren't supposed to come until 9am and asked if it was too early. They couldn't have known what a loaded question that was so when I burst into tears it seemed to have caught them off guard. I just wanted to scream, no! not yet! I'm not ready! But, I didn't, I let them in and showed them around and let them know that the desk stays, hear that, the desk stays.


About an hour after arriving they asked me to make them some coffee. Really? Coffee? Because I've already cleaned the coffee pot and oh darn, the grinder is packed. Ten minutes later the movers announced that the grinder had been unpacked. Really? Reeeeally? Because I could have sworn that you were being paid to pack things up. Oh, and by the way, the desk stays.

So, they got most of it packed up yesterday. We got checked into the Sheraton downtown after attempting to stay at the Extended Stay Suites. At the Extended Stay we walked into our non-smoking room which reeked of cigarette smoke and sat on the beds which felt like cardboard and immediately turned around and walked back out. I totally didn't want to be that wife that's all like, I can NOT stay here, but seriously, for the children's sake, I could NOT stay there.

We headed back down to the house today to let the movers back in so they could begin loading the truck. I took the head guy on a tour and informed him that the desk was to stay. One hour later I went up to the purple room which serves as our office and found the desk half way disassembled. The desk stays people!!

We went and had lunch with friends for the second day in a row. THANK YOU BETSY!! Our things should ship out tonight. The driver told me that the load will go to Toronto to pick up another two loads and then head to Fort Worth and San Marcos before ending up in Houston. Fine by me, we don't have a place to put everything yet and probably won't before September.

So, we're just chillin' in the hotel right now. Avery is napping, Ryleigh is watching tv and I'm trying to catch up on my blog reading and writing. We hope to get all of our personal business squared away before the weekend so we can just enjoy our final few days in this place that we love so much. The plan is to have dinner at East Side Marios on Sunday night, 6ish if anyone wants to join us. Monday morning we fly out and another chapter begins...