PACKING!

So, our wonderful lives are moving on again, and this one's a little tricky.  We were supposed to start our lease on our new place next Monday, exactly the day our old lease ended.  Clean.  Simple.  Easy.

Unfortunately, before we signed our contract yesterday, it was pushed back a week, so we were left homeless for a week between houses.  Getting a place for us isn't a big deal, but a week of storage for all our stuff?  Yuck.

Luckily, some wonderful friends in our ward are out of town and we are going to use their garage and basement until we can get into our new place.  It's wonderful to be a part of a church family where you can both give and receive when needed.  I've always found it much harder to receive, but I'm working on it.  Thanks for letting me inherit that, Dad.  So, we're using Thursday and Friday to pack up and get ourselves ready for move out on Saturday.  It's annoying, but it's how things are, and we're glad to finally have definite plans.  We've switched over all our utilities except water because our new water district requires that we go in to start new service (how archaic!  They also don't have online bill pay . . .) and we managed to forward all our mail from here to there and have the post office hold it a week before we move in.  We'll see how that works, or rather if that works.  

We're trying to move as much as possible to the garage so that moving is simple on Saturday.  We couldn't get a truck until late afternoon, so we're hoping to keep everything under an hour or so.  I think we'll be able to do it.  And then we'll do it again next week!  If/when we move out of this ward, the faithful saints will have moved our stuff in or out EIGHT times.  Best that we volunteer ourselves when opportunities arise, no?  Here are some photos of the emerging emptiness of our lovely duplex.  NO MORE DUPLEX!  Have I already mentioned that?