Well, we have pack out dates. Whoo Hoo!! We pack our household goods on the 9th and 10th of July and our unaccompanied on the 16th. Not much time. We haven't had any luck with giving the cats away. :( Dave called the pet liaison on base and left a message with her. I am sure she will be a great help.
The truck gets shipped on Tues. Monday we have an appt to get the lights converted back to US specs. We will be using a friend's car for the rest of our time here.
Dave is going today to schedule the delivery of our stick furniture. Fun for us. Actually we have never had the stick furniture before, so this will be a new experience for us. Nothing we can't handle, I am sure. I will need to go to the loan locker after they pack our unaccompanied to get loaner dishes and stuff.
We are hiring a cleaning service to clean the house for our final out. We decided long ago it is money well spent and have been saving up for it. We figure it is well worth the cost to have that taken care of. Of course we will still be doing quite a bit of cleaning after they pack us out. There won't be much else to do. LOL
We are flying out of London on the 1st of August. They have us flying into Chicago O'Hare. UGH I have flown through there twice and it was horrid. That was the screw up point for everything that went wrong on our trip home a few years ago. Planes were delayed or cancelled, we missed connecting flights. It sucked. So, we are not bringing any luggage. We have decided that we will mail clothes and such to my Mom's before we leave. We will each bring a carry on with a change of clothes and that's it. We have a 1 hour 35 minute lay over at Chicago. That is just not enough time for the 5 of us to collect our luggage, go through customs and make our connecting flight. Carry ons are much easier and a lot less hassle. We figure we are going to the States and anything that we need we can get for a reasonable price. Plus none of us have summer clothes, so we are going to have to buy clothing anyway. :)
So, I am busy sorting through the entertainment center. It needs to go to the dump, but everything on it needs to be transferred to the bookshelves. Our coffee table and end tables will hold our TV, DVD player, and AFN box until it gets packed up. :) That should be fun.
Well, I am off to finish up the sorting and moving of everything I can without Dave's help. Fun for me. :)
21 June 2007
02 June 2007
The Joys of Moving
Well, to prepare for our international move, ( Doesn't that sound so much more exciting than PCS? LOL) we have been going through tons of stuff. Now the average military family moves every 3-4 years. We have been here for 8 years. Sure we have moved from house to house, but it's not the same as moving from base to base. In those 8 years we have accumulated a ton of stuff. We have also accumulated another child. LOL So we have started the much needed process of weeding out the necessities.
We have made 2-3 dump trips a week, on average, for the last month or so. That's a lot of crap. I mean, we are talking an Expedition load. We have started a pile for a yard sale, that is quickly taking over the house. Thank goodness the yard sale is in 2 weeks. Today Dave and David are taking down the shed. They have managed to empty it out and divide the piles into trash and sort through. Now they are cutting the shed down. We have figured out that we need to ship the truck 6 weeks before we leave in order for it to be waiting for us when we get to the States. That means we need to ship it around June 20th, if we are leaving here Aug 01. That doesn't give us a tremendous amount of time to get all the hauling done that we need to do. It's enough time, but just barely.
Dave goes for his briefing this week. After that we should be able to start setting actual dates. Then the fun stuff starts. LOL Up until now we have been working under self imposed deadlines. It's stressful, but not tremendously stressful. Once the military starts issuing deadlines the real stress begins. :)
Well, I am off to finish sorting through Griffin and Lucas' room. I am going to let them pick 5 toys each and the rest will be packed up. They will still have their game boys and DVDs and such so 5 toys each will be plenty. :)
Hope you all have a great day.
We have made 2-3 dump trips a week, on average, for the last month or so. That's a lot of crap. I mean, we are talking an Expedition load. We have started a pile for a yard sale, that is quickly taking over the house. Thank goodness the yard sale is in 2 weeks. Today Dave and David are taking down the shed. They have managed to empty it out and divide the piles into trash and sort through. Now they are cutting the shed down. We have figured out that we need to ship the truck 6 weeks before we leave in order for it to be waiting for us when we get to the States. That means we need to ship it around June 20th, if we are leaving here Aug 01. That doesn't give us a tremendous amount of time to get all the hauling done that we need to do. It's enough time, but just barely.
Dave goes for his briefing this week. After that we should be able to start setting actual dates. Then the fun stuff starts. LOL Up until now we have been working under self imposed deadlines. It's stressful, but not tremendously stressful. Once the military starts issuing deadlines the real stress begins. :)
Well, I am off to finish sorting through Griffin and Lucas' room. I am going to let them pick 5 toys each and the rest will be packed up. They will still have their game boys and DVDs and such so 5 toys each will be plenty. :)
Hope you all have a great day.
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