Phew

It's been quite the whirlwind of activity. We made a trip up to Ohio to visit with the in-laws on Sunday. We drove back on to my parents' house Thursday--it's hard to believe that it was only yesterday now. Spent Thursday evening loading up the van, Justin's car, and my mom's trunk as well as telling my Daddy what we wanted him to bring down with him.

This morning began quite early. Justin's alarm was set to go off at five a.m., early to be sure, but my little alarm clock woke up at 4:15. We hit the ground running, and we were on the road by six. We had planned to meet the realtor at the house at eight, but our confirmation message from PODS said that they might deliver as early as 7:30, so I was planning to get here in time for that. About half way down the phone rings and the driver said he was on the way--he just delivered it without us being here, since it was well before 7:30.

So we arrived a half hour before the realtor arrived to let us in. We paced outside with Nate who was the only one of the kids we brought down in the morning. (Thing One and Thing Two staying with Gam until this afternoon.) As we were doing our final walk-thru, my dad arrived with his truck filled up too.

By lunch time the POD was emptied and about half of the van was cleared. Of course, if you've moved you know getting everything in the house is only half the battle--we've spent the rest of the day unpacking boxes and finding new homes for all of it. And we have made great progress. The only boxes left are in our bedroom.

Now we get to do it all over again on Monday when our next POD arrives! It has less in it and we won't have all the car loads, so it should be easier on that count, but we won't have my mom's help with the girlies. Hopefully they will cooperate.

Thank you so much to my parents for all their help and to my poor husband who is really struggling to keep up his blood sugar.