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| Master bedroom with walk in closet! |
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| Living room |
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| Kitchen |
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| Laundry room |
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| View of living room from kitchen |
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| Walk in pantry! |
Monday: Major house clean out--sorting through every drawer, shelf and closet to get rid of junk before the packers came. 2 trips to the Grace donation station and at least 5 garbage bags full. Where did all the junk come from? 5 am to 11 pm.
Tuesday: More of the same--in addition to cleaning the barn, teaching a riding lesson and a 3 hour cabinet design meeting for the new house. The guy at the Grace Donation Station now recognizes my car! 5 am to 11 pm.
Wednesday: The packers showed up at 8:30 am (30 mins early) and there were 5 of them. They are FAST. I had to have everything labeled to pack/not pack. As they packed downstairs I was continuing the clean out upstairs. They worked until 6:30 pm and the whole house was packed, other than a few items for the next day. 5 am to 11 pm.
Thursday: The movers showed up at 8:30 am. (I was expecting them this time.) There were 4 of them and they were great. Anyone needing a recommendation for movers in the DFW area let me know. At this point, I can't really even remember what I did while they were loading everything up. I know I was busy about every second. Tasha brought us lunch. I took Susie over to Cindy's so she wouldn't freak out. Once the truck was gone for the day I happened to notice that the packers had packed the pillows of the sofa and chair that are going to be reupholstered. I had a note on the sofa that it was not going with the moving company but somehow the pillows were on their way to Dallas. That will be an interesting dilemma to deal with in a few weeks. In the evening we checked into a hotel since the boys beds were already loaded. Joe tried to convince us that he could still stay at the house but we convinced him that he couldn't. Robert said, "what about my clothes for the wedding?" Well, they went to Dallas on the moving truck, too. And no, honey, there's no way to go and get them. Shopping trip on the calendar. 5:30 am to 11 pm.
Friday: 3 movers showed up to finish loading. They were done by noon. At 1:30 the second moving company showed up to get all of the furniture we are giving to Michelle and Miles or having reupholstered taken to our storage unit. That and our food storage... I wanted it to be in the air conditioned storage. The mover said, "that's A LOT of food!" Loading it all up took another 5 hours. Someone came to disassemble the pool table (which our mover bought for his dad.) Then a friend of a friend came to get our old freezer and refrigerator and a chair. We quickly figured out why the previous homeowners didn't take the refrigerator with them: it wouldn't fit through the laundry room door without removing the door itself AND the doors off the refrigerator. :-( That was a long process that we finally finished at about 9:45 pm. Then we were off to the hotel. 6 am to 11 pm.
Saturday: I spent most of the day organizing for our move to the rental(s). What to pack for 4 people for 3 months. What food to keep and what to toss or give away. The last of the furniture was picked up by a local consignment store. Those were the pieces that the buyers of our house didn't want.... and the house was finally empty of furniture. We took yet another load of stuff to the storage unit and utilized their dumpster so the new owners of the house wouldn't have to deal with all of our garbage. Robert and Joe patched nail holes in the wall. We dragged into the hotel at about 11:45 pm. Whataburger never looked so good... (at least to the boys!) 6 am to 12 am.
Sunday: We slept in until 7 am! Then took Robert to the airport to catch his flight to Utah for his EFY camp at BYU. Then Jim flew in from Washington DC, where he had been for business and a quick visit with his family there. Around lunch time we got the call that our rental was ready and we could come on over... so we loaded up all three cars and became Grapevine residents. It took 5 carloads to get everything over. Settling in went quickly and smoothly. I must say I managed to be quite organized about it all--I think even Jim was impressed. We picked Susie up and brought her to the rental. She was not happy. 7 am to 10 pm.
Monday: Taking Sunday off from the Stockton house was great but in order to get everything done for closing I had to get up at 5 am again... over to the house to finish cleaning by 6:30 am. Touch up painting, wiping out ovens, refrigerator/freezer, spot cleaning carpet, touching up stairs, etc etc. Closing was at 9 am and went off without a hitch. I went back to the house to finish and finally locked the door and left at about 12:30. Before I left I took a minute in each room to remember something about it. I'm glad I did that. It was a good house. Lots of memories in 6 years. 5 am to ?
Tuesday: Meeting to finalized flooring for the new house. Grapevine is turning out to be more convenient than I thought--it took me 2 minutes to get there! Once the meeting was over I felt the wave of exhaustion hitting me. I was comatose from about 2:30 pm until Jim was knocking on the front door at about 6 pm! I rarely ever sleep during the day but I definitely needed it. And I didn't have any trouble getting to sleep by 11 pm that night, either. I still feel like I'm catching up.
So, that sums up the last week. On Monday we will be moving across the street to a larger rental. Hopefully, Susie will not freak out again. She has been barking her head off when we are not here. Poor thing just doesn't understand and wants to go home.
To end on a positive note, we met with our builder today and he said everything is going great and we are on track to finish up end of Sept/beginning of Oct! Hang in there, Susie!
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