Count Down: One Week til Move Out!

In only seven days the moving company will arrive early in the AM to start packing and loading our belongs and haul them away to store until July 1st. Already the house is beginning to feel and sound a little hollow with the dining room set gone as well as a large armoire that held table linens and serving dishes. The girls bunk bed frame left the premises about 10 days ago but the mattresses remained. Duane initially wondered why I hadn't sold those too. I reminded him that Melia has barfed on the mattress more than once (reason enough not too subject someone else's kid to that mattress) and I didn't think he was interested in giving up his bed either - that reason hit home.

Packed boxes of 'stuff' we don't use daily (or probably monthly for that matter) are now filling up the garage. Of course we had to hold a garage sale and take two additional loads of stuff to the Goodwill to clear out enough space for the boxes. One of the best things about moving is that you can very easily decide not to take things you really don't want or use anymore and there is a lot less guilt about being wasteful. Duane apparently will have absolutely no problem with that - he's already decided that rather than pack anything at all, he'll just start from scratch in Elk Grove. We'll see how that plays out. :-)

But if all that wasn't enough to keep us busy and up late every night this week we also have Melia's 10th birthday and Kali's 5th grade graduation to celebrate tomorrow and Wednesday. The girls are really excited about these milestone events in their lives and we are looking forward to them as well. Perhaps by September of this year our lives will settle back down a bit and we will not feel like little hamsters on a wheel.

Check back in a few days for pictures of Melia's birthday and Kali's graduation!