we are then faced w/ frustrating complications:
DELAY OF CLOSING AND A 3RD PARTY SELLER WHOSE POLICY STRICTLY FORBIDS USE OF EVEN A GARAGE BEFORE CLOSING, making us AND all of our things homeless for 7 days.
Still, even that difficulty turned out to be a blessing: spacing out the HUGE loading up job and the equally HUGE unloading. We put EVERYthing into storage pods, which we emptied a week later, instead of renting a truck to fill and empty TWICE in 24 hours.
MOVING STINKS!! & IS EXHAUSTING & OVERWHELMING ON EVERY LEVEL!! but SAVING help from SIL Stacey & FAMILY got us ahead of schedule and out by Friday night, instead of Sat at noon!! & our SUPERWARD CLEANING AND LIFTING AND LOADING FOR HOURS MADE IT HAPPEN!!
I had to adjust my plans to include packing suitcases for all of us, but Our dryer kept breaking down the day I was trying to pack up our last clothes!! (love that my ward members got to see the worst corners of my life AND dirty laundry strewn everywhere!!--what chaos!! Life is humbling!!), but I DID manage to reset the thermostat to keep it working, at least temporarily (and throwing my schedule off by even more hours!). We filled up 12 storage pods (8'x5'x7'), and worked from dawn to dark for days. Even as we walked out of our garage for the last time, THE GARAGE DOOR GOT STUCK!! (and we didn't even have a chair to climb up to fix it!!, but our neighbor helped, and we got it back to working :).
We drove straight to Idaho that night--arriving around midnight, to stay w/ Brian's parents for the weekend. We were so grateful they let us crash and enjoy sweet Idaho summertime! -esp. when we got a call the first morning that our storage pods had been (minorly) vandalized!!
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| Grandpa teaching grandkids how to play Sorry |
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| Brian playing on slide at park picnic |
We left early Monday morning to drop off Brian at work, and then move our caravan to Nate & Stacey's back in Syracuse. (What would we do w/o great family?!!?)
We finally closed on our new house Wed, then were able to get the keys Thursday morning and start unloading the storage units that had already been dropped off. Later that day, OUR AMAZING NEW WARD started trickling in until there was nearly a mob of men, women, and children unloading all 12 pods in less than 2 hours!!--Then came baskets of fruit, and more plates of chocolate chip cookies than we could count--for days!!
It is hard to start new, and be a total stranger, especially when we realized the carpets needed to be cleaned before we could move anything in AND our dryer broke for good once we moved in (not a big deal with OVER A WEEK OF 9 PEOPLE'S LAUNDRY!!!)
but we are surrounded by goodness in kind and welcoming people--teenagers inviting ours out often, and children to play with, and nearly everyone expressing genuine joy at having us here, and making us feel SO welcome!
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