God is Moving Mountain,err...us

So we moved...

We made it, and we are making this house a home. 

I still haven't gotten around to getting together all my photos of the move, but my method this time worked! I got everything unpacked in 2 weeks. Unpacked...and put away for the most part. The only boxes left are those of EJ's 'baby' items, that need to be sorted through and reboxed up. 

When packing the boxes, I labeled them all with a sticker that had the room and a number on it. They were color coded. Then in a binder I had a spreadsheet with the room name at the top and numbers down the side, here is where I wrote what was in each box. So when it came to unpacking and I needed something right away, I could go right to my binder to know what box to look in. 

At the new house, I labeled every room with a color coded label, and the movers brought the boxes to the specific rooms. When it came to unpacking, I started in the kitchen, and I did box 1-30. Not jumping around, not opening another box before one was completely empty. I did this throughout the whole house, one room at a time, one box at a time. It went so smoothly!!! I can not believe how well it went. 

Now, I did have my mother in law here. What a blessing! She took care of the kids and normal household duties so I could just power through. She cooked, she cleaned, she did the laundry! It was so helpful! 

When I get things on the walls, and the curtains changed...I will post before and after photos of the house. 

That is all for this post! Don't worry I have more to say!

Signing off

~*KJ*~

A Giant Game of Tetris

Started major packing today. Which included repacking boxes packed back in January, due to not being full enough. I guess when you use professional movers, they don't care how heavy the box is, just that is is full and won't crush. Works for me :). 

Then we moved packed boxes from one side of the basement to the other. It was like a giant game of tetris, getting them all to fit in a space, and getting things to fit in the boxes. Oh what fun!

Tomorrow it continues, until well, the end of the month, when the truck comes. Thankfully we don't actually have to carry everything from the basement to the truck. Totally looking forward to that this time. 

We've taken care of every move ourselves, execpt hiring a local moving company for the heavy furniture that won't fit in our vechicles. This is new to me getting to use movers. If we weren't moving to the other side of the mountains, I'm sure we wouldn't be using movers. I'm super excited we don't have to drive a giant trailer rental truck through the mountains!

At some point I will take a photo of the boxes, and the way I've chosen to organize them. I've gotten really into organizing lately. So I started a binder, with labels, and I'm really hoping this move goes smoother than the rest. I'll let you know ;)

I'm going to go spend some time with The Lord via The Word. 

Good Night

~*KJ*~

It has to start at some point

So...we have finished our regular travel hockey season. AB played great! He had a great season and learned/improved so much! We, because you know I'm part of the team too (mom, taxi, manager, laundry-doer) had our first league loss today, it was rough. It was a great game, and the other team deserved the win, they played hard all season as well, and only got their first loss of the season, yesterday, from us. :)

With this being the end of something, it's making things set in, that things here in Ohio are ending. This stage of my life is ending. We are moving. We are moving away from friends. From family. From Life as we know it.

We were given a good bye party today at our Life Group (church community group) meeting as well. While I know I will still see these people, more before we move, it was sad to think another end. Two in one day. 

The start of the end is here.

It may actually be okay...

So incase you don't know...we are moving...south.

We sold our house here in Ohio in 6 days. 2 days later we were placing an offer on a house in South Carolina.

Inspections have been done...repairs are being made...THE House might actually work out. 

Things were moving so quickly I was starting to get nervous. I am super excited to get down to the World of pilots. While we won't have family there, we will have friend's of B's. Co-workers, who have wives, who would then be wives of pilots. Who might actually understand this crazy life we are leading. 

I'm off to dinner with family now, but just had to share!!!

Signing off

~*KJ*~

How did I get here...

I have really been feeling lately that I have things I need to share with the World.  So here I am, writing a blog. Maybe just for me. I might be the only one who ever visits this page, and that is okay. This isn't about anything other then needing to get my thoughts out of my head. 

So many thoughts, no road map, not sure where to start. 

I am a 29 year old wife to a pilot. This means for more than half my life, I'm a single mom, only I"m married, but my co-parent is out of town. Away from the house for more than just 9-5. The new wages at B's job have allowed for me to stay home with our children. Which is great, because daycare was a nightmare!

I like to jump all over. There will be no method to the maddness that is this blog. 

Things going on in my life. 

1. Packing

2. Moving

3. Guests coming to town

4. Hockey tournaments

5. Life!

We are currently in the process of moving from one state to another. We are headed south. Hopefully it is warmer there when I get there. I grew up in the great white north, and now I live in the heart of the USA. I moved for Love. I graduated, moved, got a job, got married, and now we are moving South. I'm so tired of the cold. It's been 29 years of cold. I'm over it. We didn't have school here last week, due to the extreme cold temps, which are no where near what I grew up with, but either way. I'm tired of having to wear boots and coat. I want my flip flops back. 

This means we are packing, we are dealing with inspections, and movers, and chaos. Chaos is great. Expect with you have a child with ADHD. The more chaotic things get the more crabby he becomes. So Tomorrow's goal is to get things back on track. Organized, like before the sale was done. 

As it is 11:45 pm, I'm going to head to bed. 

Signing Off

KJ