I'm definitely jealous ;-) Let's see, how many times have we moved (in 7.5 years of marriage)? I guess it is 6 so far. And I have made Duane do 90% of the packing/moving because it's either been his idea to move when I didn't really want to (so the trade-off was that he did the moving), or because I was working and he was SAHD'ing so it naturally fell to him to pack. And since he's so manly and tough, I would usually corral the childrens while he moved the boxes/furniture. Up until recently we literally didn't have any furniture besides a mattress/box springs, crib, kitchen table, and couch. So moving wasn't that difficult.
Any particular reason for going through Colorado? We always go west to El Paso then up through NM and the Four Corners region and come in to the valley through Spanish Fork Canyon.
Mar - Nope - we are out. The truck came Saturday so that we could get more help from friends to load it. So we are now just waiting until Tuesday when we head down to Houston. Mike's Dad is flying in to help drive the truck and the van. I am going to stay at my sister's until Friday when I get to fly out. I am glad to miss the drive but I am still a little nervous about how the flight is going to go...
The secret to being miserable is having the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
-George Bernard Shaw
1.)"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived. "
2.)"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
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wow.
eeeeeehhhhhhh - yikes. i am not looking forward to our own little move in 2 weeks. . . . guess i should start packing - heh.
I'm definitely jealous ;-) Let's see, how many times have we moved (in 7.5 years of marriage)? I guess it is 6 so far. And I have made Duane do 90% of the packing/moving because it's either been his idea to move when I didn't really want to (so the trade-off was that he did the moving), or because I was working and he was SAHD'ing so it naturally fell to him to pack. And since he's so manly and tough, I would usually corral the childrens while he moved the boxes/furniture. Up until recently we literally didn't have any furniture besides a mattress/box springs, crib, kitchen table, and couch. So moving wasn't that difficult.
Any particular reason for going through Colorado? We always go west to El Paso then up through NM and the Four Corners region and come in to the valley through Spanish Fork Canyon.
I'm impressed you have that much done already. You still have like 1 day left right?
Mar - Nope - we are out. The truck came Saturday so that we could get more help from friends to load it. So we are now just waiting until Tuesday when we head down to Houston. Mike's Dad is flying in to help drive the truck and the van. I am going to stay at my sister's until Friday when I get to fly out. I am glad to miss the drive but I am still a little nervous about how the flight is going to go...
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