So Much to Do, So Little Time!

Oh my goodness we've been busy! You have no idea how many things you have to worry about to move across the country, until you're actually doing it! I feel like our to do list keeps getting longer instead of shorter, but I'm sure it will all get done & we'll work it all out.

We had two different companies take our stuff from our house initially when the storm happened. One is called ServPro that takes all of your belongings, packs them up & treats it for water & mold damage. The other is the Certified Restorative Drycleaning Network (CRDN) that takes all of your clothes, drapes, bedding, and pretty much anything else washable & treats & stores all of that. Well I've already told you that ServPro is being great big poopy-heads & not giving us any of our "stuff" stuff before we move. We tried to get them to send us our belongings directly to Vermont but no-go. Bummer. Worth a try. Not sure what we're going to do about all of that stuff yet, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. We've got what we need to function for now. But CRDN brought us all of our fabric stuff last week and OH. MY. GOD. we've got a lot of crap!! lol Sadly, as a mark of how long we've been going through all of this, probably 75% of all of our clothes we had to sell/donate. The kids have long grown out of everything they took & Matt & I have lost so much weight (probably due to the stress) that none of our stuff fits anymore either! So we boxed all of that up & set it aside & went out with some friends on Friday night. Our dear friends the Kappels (we <3 them! :)) own the coffee shop in our town & offered to let us use their parking lot on Saturday morning to try & get our garage sale started. Not sure if they were totally serious, but we took them up on it! lol For an impromptu garage sale that was not advertised (except for the wonder that is facebook) I think we did pretty darn good. Sadly though, we still have a TON of stuff left to get rid of, so we'll do it again next weekend. (Don't worry Tim & Kimberlee, we'll go to the commercial buildings instead! lol) And might I add, for the record, that it is my husband, not me, that is the total clothes horse. He had 8 EIGHT boxes of clothes to my one! lol Never again though. I think we've learned our lesson on the mild amount of hoarding we had going on. ("But what if I gain weight again & I need this?" "But what if this one gets ruined? I better buy 4 of them..." etc. lol)

So clothes are pretty much taken care of, we need to weed through our stuff at our friend's house to see what we're taking & what we need to get rid of there, secure all of the rest of our belongings at our house, load up all of the tools we're taking to Vermont onto the trailer, sell two more cars & our flatbed trailer, sell the gator, have our garage sale again, donate what's left, arrange for our move, oh, and the minor detail of finding a house to rent in VT. Little things, right?? lmao! Ugh. That's okay. I know we'll get it all done in time. But I hope you'll forgive me if I'm not on here much to update until things get settled. I'll try, but I don't have internet where I'm staying right now, so it's hit or miss when I'll have time. You can become one of my "followers" though & then you'll get notified whenever I update on all of our crazy fun! lol Wish us luck!