11 Days Left

Today I cleaned out the safe and added all of its contents to our pile of things going with us in our cars.  I also added a few kitchen items we will need while we are transitioning between houses.  Things like a pot and pan, a cookie sheet, tin foil, saran wrap, a spatula, bowls and utensils.  We are staying in our house for a couple of days after the movers pack our things, so these items will help keep us from eating out too often.  I also added bedding to the pile as well as school supplies, my husband's gun and bullets, and special heirlooms that we just don't trust the movers with.  The pile is getting bigger by the day!


Then I put together the personal file folder.  These are a folder of documents like birth and marriage certificates, deeds to any home you may own, power of attorneys and wills, my husband's orders and his last Leave and Earning Statement.  It also has school records for my kids and medical records we have collected, including their immunization records. 


Throughout the day I did laundry and tomorrow I will be packing all the cloths we will need with us.  For the kids that means at least a weeks worth of school cloths.  For my husband it will mostly be his uniforms, which he recently had laundered so he is all set for work when we arrive.  I will pack minimally since all I plan on doing while I am there is unpack! 


I also pulled down the curtains and rods.  Tomorrow we will patch the holes in the walls.  I didn't bother washing the curtains because I always feel like they are dirty after being packed away in a box with other household goods.  I will wash them when I unpack. 


Once it cooled off in the evening my husband cleaned out the cars.  Our cars tend to be cluttery all the time.  I don't want to move with mess of a car, so I took care of that tonight too.  Normally we would have our cars serviced before a move because of the distance we are driving.  But we recently had them serviced when we drove up there for our house hunting trip.  So we are going to skip that.


While he was doing that I sprayed the sidewalk cracks with weed killer one last time before our walk through.  Then I weeded the garden areas of the house, shaped the bushes and trimmed the palm trees.  And I scrubbed a spot under the eaves of the house where my kids drew with chalk and it never washed away with the rain.  I want the house looking spiffy when our landlord arrives for our walk through!


I donated some open kitchen ingredients to a neighbor and my husband cleared out the attic crawl space so it can all be packed on Monday.  This move is almost here, can't wait to just be done with the preparations and on to the excitement of a new home!