moving 20 hours away part 1 of 2
Wow, where do I even begin…. It has been such a complex, chaotic whirlwind these last couple of weeks. Essentially we moved us, all our stuff and our fish a 20 hour drive away from where we were living before, we left our jobs and are in the process of starting new ones and somehow managed to help out some friends. I have figured the best way to write about it is with an outline form with some details and some pictures.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 was my last day at my previous employer. After arriving home I spent most of the night putting things in boxes and then later looking for things. My husband spent a lot of time shampooing the carpet. Luckily we were able to have dinner with Sarah, Nick, Erin and Deb.
Thursday, September 17, 2009 my husband drove to a friends house to do some final work on our Toyota pickup truck and I spent the entire day putting everything left in boxes and throwing stuff out. My husband returned with the Truck only to adjust the height and have the bolt break. AHHH. Imagine a truck slanted towards the drivers side. It was obvious and not drivable for 20 hours. Go ahead and feel free to freak out because we were at the time. It was too late to call any place about a replacement part so my husband spent most of the night surfing the internet looking for the necesary part.
Friday, September 18, 2009 my husband was able to locate the part through Toyota parts department and they can send it to the store by tomorrow. Fingers are crossed. The husband’s mother arrived late last night. She wants my husband to load her trailor as she is taking a load of her stuff back to Tucson with her leaving Sunday morning. We tried to advise her that it would be better if she planned her trip earlier so we would have more time or just time to help her as opposed to 2 days before we were planning on moving out of our apartment. You know how parents can be, they don’t always listen. When my husband suggested that she also have her other son and his 2 sons help her load her trailor she got all mad and upset. Apparently she never listened to us the entire last 3 years when we have said we are doing this move nor was she listening the entire summer when we told her we were moving out of our apartment on Sept. 14 and would be extrememly busy around this date. No she interpreted it as we didn’t love or want to help her. Parents can be very self absorbed and unwilling to admit that their children have been adults with their own lives. Odd since that is what they pushed us to be, all responsile and stuff. Unfair as when we were little they were too busy working all of the time and we too busy or too tired to play with us when we wanted them to. I hope to not suffer the same with my own kids. That was the biggest thing today, we had an OB appointment and we were able to see our little baby on a ultrasound. He/She is really little as it is about 14 weeks. It was really neat. The doctors said the baby kept moving around a lot so he/she is definatly our kid, especially my husband’s. After the appointment my husband spent the day loading his mother’s truck full of her stuff so she can drive it to Tucson. I spent the day making sure everything was put away in boxes and started cleaning the apartment.
Saturday, September 19, 2009 we woke up early and picked up our part for the Toyota pickup truck from the Toyota parts department. On the way back to our apartment we stopped by U-haul and picked up our trailer. This left us just enough time to get home, stow the trailer in our garage and then travel south to Greenwood, Indiana. Our friend Kara threw us a small baby shower at Olive Garden. It was great to see some of our friends one last time. We returned back to our apartment at around 2pm. The husband proceeded to fix the truck and I proceeded to clean the apartment. After the truck was fixed we started loading the trailer with our boxes. We also weighed every box we put in the truck so as to have an idea of how much weight would be pulling. We wanted to keep it as light as possible. We did get almost all of it in there. We had to leave a few things behind like the 30 pound paper shredder that we imagined we could easily replace. I don’t even remember what we ate for dinner but we finally finished. It was 11:30 at night and we were traveling north on I-65 to sleep at my parents house as we had packed our bed in the trailer. What do you know there is an accident and we were stuck there at a standstill for about a half hour. We finally made it to my parents house and fell asleep in about 5 minutes.
Part 2 of the moving store will be posted in the next few days.
