Moving Weekend

The kids had a great time playing!

We are all exhausted!! It's a relief to have the moving done. Our neighbor, Luba, did an awesome job playing with our kids, Michael was a huge help with the heavy lifting, my dad provided the trailer and lots of advice, and Lindy did an awesome job cleaning the entire kitchen! We're so grateful for our family! We almost finished the cleaning today, but we'll have to finish last minute stuff after Eric gets home from school the next two days. The kids were too tired and cranky to hang out while we worked (the adults were spry and chipper...not!). This week should be a bit more relaxing than the last couple of weeks have been (although somehow I doubt it will be!). We have completely taken over my dad's house, so it's a good thing he won't be here until after we leave! What a crazy life!

Room to spare!!

Tangible Evidence

I can't believe another month has gone by! One of my "to do" lists is done by month--I call it my timeline. So, here it is the end of May, and everything that needed to be completed in May has been completed. We finished the wall, the shelving, and the rafters yesterday. (Thank you, Dad!) Today was my "official" last day of work, the kids' last day with Juli, and our last day with the Durango. That closes a chapter on our lives!
Tonight I booked our flights to Seoul (names spelled correctly, everything went through the first time...a much better experience than our last flight-booking debacle!), my contract finally was sent to Seoul, and now it's time to start prepping the second step of our visa acquisition process. We have about 10 days left in the house, and it's starting to look pretty empty. There is now very real, very tangible evidence that in a little more than six weeks, we'll be in Korea!

Three Day Weekend

I love three day weekends!!! With the kids gone with my dad this weekend, we were able to get so much accomplished! Eric was finally able to get up on the roof and clean off the moss, clean out the gutters, and wash the windows. I was able to go through the kids’ rooms (again!) to pack up toys, books, and clothes. I took another big load of stuff to the Goodwill, and I even got the first suitcase packed (only eleven more to go!). Thanks to Eric’s mom we got many of the basics the kids needed. (It’s hard to imagine not being able to shop for them for the next year! I can’t figure out how to pack a year’s worth of clothes for each of them!) Tomorrow we will finish the wall, shelving, and rafters in the garage and then we’ll be ready to start moving furniture out of the house. Two weeks from today, our house will be empty!

Clutter Clean Out

Why is it that when you are trying to clean out something (or everything in our case) the mess gets so much bigger before it gets smaller?! I have been working on cleaning out our house for nearly two months now and for some reason it doesn’t seem to be any more cleaned out now than it was six weeks ago! We did get a lot accomplished this weekend…we took everything off the walls and that does make the house look a bit bare. We also got the garage completely cleaned out and started officially storing boxes. Now, we just need the wall to go up in the garage to block off our third garage where we will be storing all of our things for the next couple of years. That should be going up this week (right, Dad?)! This week I’ve started the second run-through on cleaning out the kitchen, bathrooms, and bedrooms. I’m on the fourth run-through of my closet…it’s strange that every time I look at it I find more items I don’t need to take with me…even more strange is that I’m pretty sure I still need to buy a few tops…and maybe a pair of pants! J