2 long weeks later we have made it into our new home and have even found enough kitchen supplies that I'm cooking again!
We had a very adventurous move to say the least. Looking back, I think I would have cut my last week of work a few days short of the full week. Leaving work on that last Friday was pretty overwhelming to say the least. No matter how unhappy I had been during the last year, I still had a lot of great memories. It was my first big job after grad school and I met some really great people and a lot of really cool kids.
I left at noon on Friday full of tearful good-byes and walked straight into the middle of the big move. The agent was there, the soon to be new owners were there, the moving truck was outside and the movers were loading everything into the truck. I was a bit overwhelmed.
Fast forward a few hours. The new owners have closed on the house and have come back to check on the progress of our move. By now it's dinner time. We are cleaning things up and packing up a few more miscellaneous boxes when our movers tell us that the truck is full. Full?? So at this point we no longer own the house, the new people have workers coming in the next day to start remodeling and our new home is 5 1/2 hours away.
We are lucky enough to have some wonderful family members that live near by so they came over and helped take a few car loads of the leftovers to their garages. We still couldn't get everything out and it was the first weekend of September when everyone moves to college so we couldn't find an additional truck or trailer anywhere. We were pretty much stuck.
Long story short, it took us a few more days and tons of extra driving but my wonderful husband got everything out of there while I went on to Milwaukee for a few bridal showers. I tried to help him, but he insisted that I go to the parties as planned.
So needless to say it was quite an adventure. We definitely earned the 2 weeks of vacation after that (post on that to come ...)
But we are in our new home now and life is pretty good! I finally found the spice rack and the box with all of my oils, soy sauce, etc so I'm thrilled to be making dinner again.
More on the new home and my new life coming soon!
Until the next time ...
The girl behind the Lama
~LMM
3 comments:
Glad you made it! Moving is always so stressful, but it's nice to 'start over' again at a new place!
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Wow, we just moved across town and it was a fiasco. Had to be out of our apartment the day our closing got pushed back 2 weeks. Lived in y MIL's 1bdroom apt. for thpse 2 weeks. Still have basement full of unpacked boxes. Good luck!!
How exciting!
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