I'm bummed about leaving our little house and my garden but I'm excited to find a new little house (hopefully a bit bigger than this one) and start a new garden somewhere else. I am a little nervous about gardening in major hail country though. Our new town got hit with some big hail earlier this week. Up to 2" diameter hail is big. That causes lots of crop, building, car, and garden damage. Tornadoes are also a reality where we are going. A basement will be in order for a new house.
In the mean time I'm just trying to get packed, keep the house clean enough to show, and finish my last month of work. Somehow we'll get out of here. I have to stop and remind myself that there are other days to do some of the stuff. It doesn't have to be done all in one day. Shoot we might even get to use a full-service mover. That would be cool. We've never done that before. It certainly has never been in the budget.
I know I'm jumping around a little and not paying much attention to transitions but here is my basic to-do list:
- clean (This seems like all day every day whether I'm at work or at home since I am moving out of work too)
- pack
- paint
- sand back door so it can be painted (luckily Tom got this one done today)
- re-do breakfast nook floor (almost done, we are working on the trim)
- re-do transitions from living room to bedrooms
- vacuum the constant accumulation of Buddy hair, especially since it is spring and he's shedding
- try to keep up with the constant hurricane of kids stuff
- sort and get rid of stuff
- hold a yard sale
- try to get through our freezer and pantry of food in the next month
- go to work 40 hours a week for the next month
- get both cars ready to drive close to 900 miles
- figure out what we need as a family to have with us as we move
- find a house to live in on the other end
- sell this house
- keep the yard up (harder than one would think when it keeps raining)
- decide whether or not to store our stuff for up to a month when we move or figure something else out
- figure out utility dates for shut-off
So maybe it isn't so bad. It just feels like a lot sometimes. We've made a huge dent in the house projects. We just have a few more things to do.
Speaking of rain we've got a storm that has knocked out power a bit ago and might again. So I'm off to play with my youngest and her train.
