The reason why our children think moving is FuN!!!!

Charlie took our kids' beds apart yesterday in preperation for the movers. This evening while I was shampooing all of our rugs, he built them this tent out of their quilts, headboards, and a toybox. They are all sleeping in it as I type. The threat of not being allowed to sleep in it if they got rowdy was enough make them go to sleep in less than 15 minutes.

Jordan was MIA because he was at basketball practice with Charlie.

The Chaos Begins

It is that time of year again... MOVING time of year. Yikes. I say this every time... but hopefully we will actually stay in Alaska for 3 years and I won't be having another one of these posts in 11 or 12 months from now.

Today an international moving company came and crated up 12 fairly large boxes of "STUFF" to head to Alaska ahead of time. We are hoping it gets there around March 24th because the rest of our stuff won't be arriving until the beginning of May. So today we sent linens, half of our kitchen, a few toys, games, my sewing machine, outdoor gear, rubber boots in case we hit break-up before our stuff arrives, and some of Charlie's gear. I think we are authorized 1500 pounds of things to go ahead of time and when we arrived in Germany I only sent 200 pounds, so I tried to bulk this shipment up and I think it was a success.

I have a list a mile long of things that need to be done and I have 2 weeks to line it all up. Some days, I think I could start a moving planner business. Instead of the wedding planner, I could be the moving planner. I joke that I don't even need check-lists... there is a permanent log of moving tasks in my head. Don't be suprised if next year I start taking down curtains at the 12 month mark in anticipation of a move that might never happen!

I am going to try to squeeze one more post before we leave Germany about the German things I am going to miss and the things that I can't wait to say "Auf weidersehen" to.