we spent most of the daylight hours moving what we could, load-by-load, car trip-by-car trip...over an 8 hour period. and we STILL have boxes left in the back bedroom to move still.
altho, theres a sizeable dent in the room, it almost feels like were spinning our wheels in the effort.
we have so little time to get it done in and im not really wanting alot of other ppl to handle the boxes we have taken such great care to pack and move over 1000 miles from columbia SC, to here in OK. not that i dont trust them, im just leary of others handling my possessions, even as trivial to most they may be.
last night i thought about a hitch on the new car.
woke up today asking craig if it would be possible to get one for the car, then renting a small trailer....he thought the bumper wasnt adaptable for a hitch and ball....
UGHHH!.
its taken 3 days to get out of that backroom, what we have. and we have about 1/3 in our bedroom to do as well....then theres the computer room. alot of smaller items and packable, some already boxed boxes for the new house. and alot of heavier items to move...most likely the last weekend of the month.
craig got up and i had to remind him, moving was a priority. we dont want to HAVE to rent a u-haul to do this, and expend the monies on that, when we can pack what we can, move it 5 streets away and have at least what we did..done.
he called in to work, and found they had decided to allow them a delayed start time. (im sort of thankful--too much time off cuts into living expenses) and he took 2 loads before he left for work. GOOD MAN!!!!
he thinks hell be done on time (hard to actually say when you deal in call-center work) and i reminded him he can still attempt to move a few loads when he comes home. maybe have that bedroom completed.
with the room emptied we can move other items from the back of the house into that room and use it as the "NEEDS-TO-BE-HAULED" room.
id do it during the daytime, but i dont have a car when hes at work. his truck is not running and it sure would have been a benefit to have had while we moved this weekend. but, im fortunate we did have a running vehicle at all. and it does the job, just very slowly.
i did something to my shoulder moving and it hurts in certain positions. pulling or lifting anything heavy feels like a sharp burning spear shooting thu the ball joint of my shoulder. my elbow has had issues for about 2 months now associated with the internet, and my carple tunnel syndrom has eased up a bit to a degree. i rarely feel any effect from that at the moment. (crosses fingers and knocks on wood..lol)
id help more, but my main job, is packing and organizing the loads for him to get as soon as he returns from a drop-off at the new house.
im also in charge if EXTRA MISC. STUFF that can be placed while hes putting boxes in certain areas in the home. i unload and basicaly "move in" those items we have no need of "RIGHT NOW".
for the next 2 weeks well live on minimal items in the home. fewer plates. just enough silver ware, enough cups/glasses to use one per person (including dinner for 3 when we invite the missionaries and they bring another member with them). it makes for LESS to wash (wich i completely enjoy!)
new home has a dishwasher! WHOOO-HOOOOO! we havnt tried it yet to see if it works, landlord "winterized" the house so the pipes wouldnt bust with water still in them in the event it took longer to get a renter in the home.it isnt new, but i can tell it was used, there were still some dishes (clean) in it when we opened it.
im not giving up hope. i know moving isnt an easy job. ive don it more than i can count since my sons been alive. the average.is once about every 6 months. hes 12, so that would make about..24 moves.
we lived on schoolhouse road when he was born....
moved to a friends incomplete storage attic area....
then into a mobile home park waaaaaay out in the country..
then closer to town in ANOTHER mobile home park....
then to another home INSIDE that park, as they fixed the floor of the one we resided in....
then to the other side of town..in another mobile home park...
from there to yet another mobile home park into a freinds trailer they let me buy on time for 100 a month, all i paid was lot rent and electric..besides esential stuff.
from there to another city....
then to a homeless shelter...
then a townhome (i upgraded!)....
then to another mobile home park....
to an apartment complex (another upgrade)....
to a house...
then to this rental unit ...
and again..5 streets away...hopefully this is the last time.
thats 15 by my count...in my sons 12 years. thats alot. he hasnt had a single school hes been at for more than one year at a time.
this school may not be the best, but id like his later school years to be solid. and not shift his educational foundation too much...
the reasons are in the past why i moved so frequently with my son, know,that each time (well, most of the time) there was reason to do so...most of the time, out of my control.
i have tried since my mother passed away 4 years ago to make daniels life alot more stable and less "gypsy-like". but to make it better, often a move is required....
im wanting this to be the last move. im exausted and so tired of always seeing boxes and not having those items i feel important out in my life to be a apart of, for fear id have to move..again.
when i moved in with craig, 3 years ago, my life was still in boxes because he had already established his home the way he liked it, and he had a TON of stuff!!!, i had a wall, that had my moms bookcases on it, with those books and items i wanted to have out more than all the others.
i really didnt have a "place" inside HIS world. and altho, he was willing to let me have space, we didnt know where to put anything he already had placed to allow for mine to accompany his.
so, with this home were renting-to-buy...we can BOTH agree to share every corner and place every thing we want to have open.
he has things hed like to have out, and im in agreement to allow them a place, as long as we have at least almost equal space.
just getting it theres..is the task at hand.
MICHELLE
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