This morning, I filled out yet more sheets of paper and sent off a good chunk of cash to cover 20% of our new home. It's one of the many steps required to take us from our crowded condo that is nearing the end of its useful life (for us anyway), setting us on the path to what's next - a bigger home built to hold a growing family with growing kids like ours. Should the calendar fall into place as would be most fantastic, we could be fully moved ten days from today.
Just ten more days to finish paperwork, trade housekeys, pack, move, turn off utilities, turn on utilities, and start again in a new place, wondering if any loose ends are preparing to trip us up.
Matthew and Sarah don't really know that we are moving. They get the idea that there is a "Baby" in their mom's tummy, and that will present its own surprises (in a few months, we hope), but telling them of our new place has been pretty useless. In the next few days, as more and more possessions morph into brown boxes with scrawled black felt tip marker and tape, this could change, and they will know something has changed. Then, ten days from now, they will wake up in one place and go to bed in another, never to return.
One goal I have is to reduce the amount of physical labor my 7-months pregnant wife will have to endure, besides the daily routine of corralling kids. We're "going pro" on the moving company this time, and we'll pay to get someone else to pack, so she can sit back and keep her feet off the floor. I have a feeling the dollars we lose on that move will be less needed than her energy when it comes to the whole process.
But we're down to ten days, and starting tomorrow, we're in single digits - numbers the twins can count down with me.
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