I'm sure there are others out there whose moves have spanned years, but ours sure feels like the longest one ever to us! Today was the big box-loading day. We rented a big box from U-Haul, which we pulled to the house (my parents' house, I mean), and loaded up with all of our worldly possessions. We thought we were going to need two of this giant boxes, but almost everything fit into one, so we decided to leave out just a few pieces of furniture in lieu of having one nearly empty (or doing some mad shopping in two hours or something). It was well-packed, shall we say. (Interpretation: I dare anyone to fit more in there than we squeezed in.)
To those of you who donated some wonderful stuff to us - THANK YOU.
In a way, it's a little scary and stressful to drop nearly everything you own off at a U-Haul place and hope they ship it across the country without destroying it in the process. It's also really nice to have that stage of the move done! It's like when we were finally able to check in our baggage at the Nairobi airport and didn't have to haul our suitcases around anymore - good-bye, huge and heavy stuff, see you later.
So, one more stage of the move done, only like eight more to go. We're over halfway there physically - we've gotten ourselves around the world, now we just have to go across the country. We've done almost all of the packing, and unpacking is easier than packing by far. We WILL make it!
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