Good stress is still stress, right? There are many changes coming to my family. We are packing up to move to our hometown, but don’t know how things will be. Can we pick up there where we left off? Will we love our home and make it homey? Our youngest is about to graduate and […]
With 12 days left to complete our packing, it looks like a bomb went off in my home. As we pack, we’re also organizing. That takes so much longer, but we then have less to put on our moving truck. Most discards are going to Goodwill, but we’re also throwing a ton of it away. […]
How many times have you moved? We’ve moved at least 10 times. Most of the moves were for a reason related to family. Our kids were always first, which has pros and cons. Our kids are all adults and leading happy and productive lives, so I would never go back and change the reasons for […]
We made it to our new home, after three tough days of driving. We all rode inside the cab of the 26″ U Haul truck. Even our dog was there. It was so uncomfortable and my surgically repaired foot/ankle throbbed and swelled. But, thank God, we made it alive. There are piles of boxes in […]
We are enjoying our new home even though we are still surrounded by boxes. It’s still difficult to walk through each room. There has been so much work to do in order to get the home set up. Hubby and I are exhausted and fighting through pain and our adult son is doing a ton […]
Unpacking boxes is a painful process. My scoliosis and lordosis makes it almost impossible to bend over. Standing up is hard enough. I’ve been working as hard as I can, but there are still so many things that need put away. Organizing as I go is necessary, because of the small size of our new […]
I love it when things improve. The house, though still messy, is getting better everyday. There are only a few boxes in each room, and that makes us all so relaxed. Stress has been high with all the mess, but with every box emptied, I feel more at peace. My MCAS flare has stopped, for […]