Plan Unknown

Just a quick note to start...thank you to all of you who left sweet notes of encouragement on yesterday's post. It really meant a lot to me...

in the past few days I finally feel like I am feeling much more peace about things...life in general really. Just needed to talk and get a little bit of needed help to figure out what was going on with me and how I can make the best of my life. Really I think that is the ultimate goal in almost ALL our lives. To be the best person we can be no matter what others think or say, and no matter what stresses are weighing us down. I have really finally felt HOPE again. :) That's a good feeling...

Am praying the HOPE I feel will hold on and get me through this week. We are working with Operation PLAN UNKNOWN.

I am not good at this.

When we moved out here to Ohio, I had everything arranged, plans for utility hookup, U-Haul, etc as far in advance as possible. I like things to be arranged...I like a backup plan for a backup plan.

But this time, we don't really even have a plan for a backup plan to stand behind.

It's kind of like having a baby. You know it's gonna happen. But you just don't know the date. Well, unless you're like me and you have been induced all three times you had a baby. :) The logistics of our move are so complex--and it's hard to not get stressed about timelines. We are supposed to be out by next weekend. But our new house isn't finished yet--and when it IS, it has to have an inspection before we can move IN. And if any little tiny part of the house fails to meet the correct code, we have to reschedule an inspection. All of this has to somehow come together in the next 5 days.

And it will.

Right???

But until then, operation Plan Unknown is to try to freeze meals to eat for the next 5-6 days and pack our house like crazy...and then clean like there were never 3 small children living here. I think that will take 5 days in and of itself.

And hopefully, next Saturday we will find ourself with a loaded truck ready to move into our new place...ready to lock the kids in the basement I have been dreaming of for so long. :)

On the subject of packing...me and Brandon take a very different approach.

Me: pack absolutely everything we WON'T USE before we move. Pack the rest the night before.
Brandon: pack anything in the room, just so it isn't there anymore.

I realized this when he asked me several times (while I was in the middle of something) about a particular box in our room. It had become the catch-all...I admit. I was at fault for this one. But he was SO anxious to get it out. So I finally said whatever and to just take it out--

Been wondering where all my dirty clothes went...:) Found them today in an open box in the garage while I was taking another box out that he had packed that included the IRON. Tomorrow is church. Tomorrow we might look at little homeless.

But thank you Brandon for packing like a pro! You really helped get stuff out of here and it feels like a lighter load already! :)

Speaking of loads, I have about 5 of those in the form of laundry spilling off of my couch and waiting for me to fold them...

Night.