12 Days Left

Today was a busy day.  We spent a few hours having two more farewell play dates before coming home to get things ready for the movers on Monday.  First I pulled out what I call my liquids box.  It is a glass dish box I got from u-haul with dividers.  I go through every room in the house and find all of the liquids, and anything else the movers will not move.  Then I fill up the box, and whatever is left I give away or throw out.  This box will go with us in our car.

I was actually able to get more in this box after I took the picture

While I was doing this I also put together a box of cleaning supplies that we will need to clean our house before we do our walk through.  I also taped up all of our open dry goods, otherwise the movers won't move them because it can attract rodents and bugs if our things go into storage.  If you look closely you can see packaging tape on the tops of all of the containers.

Next I did some more home purchasing paperwork and took all of the pictures off the walls. We have one picture that has a special made box with packaging that we keep, so we took that down and packed it all up.  Other wall decorations have their own screws or special hangers, so when I take them down I tape the fasteners to the back of it.  That way they are all together and I am less likely to loose things.  I also took down the decorations on top of the kitchen cupboards so the movers can pack it all up and placed all the delicate art the kids have up for decorations in a folder and put it in our filing cabinet for a safer move.


Then we replaced all of the light bulbs in our house.  This sounds crazy, I know.  But the energy efficient bulbs are very expensive, so we decided to replace them with the cheap bulbs and we packed our bulbs in a box with peanut packaging.  We will take them with us in the car.


My husband verified our moving dates with the moving company yesterday.  There was some confusion about whether or not our movers were coming on Monday as planned, or if they were coming tomorrow (Friday).  That change is a huge deal because if there were coming on Friday then we loose a whole weekend to get prepared, and we would have had to reschedule our last farewell play date.  Thankfully it was a mistake which my husband was able to clear up.  The movers are coming on Monday as planned.


Today was a very productive day and the rest of the weekend is going to have to be that way as well.  Fingers crossed that we stay in good health and good spirits to get through this busy time.