We bought the Raptor toy hauler for our new home. Woot! It's getting all spruced up before delivery in a week or two, which means this moving "thing" has become real.
It was confirmed before; however, it's seriously "go-time" now. We have 5-6 days to pack up our home completely.
This was our first trip to the storage unit. We didn't bring much on this trip. This first run was to kickstart the younger kids' brains that this is happening, so stop unpacking all the boxes!
The timeline we've created is as follows...
By Saturday, 9/14, pack the home into three categories and store them in various house areas.
Local storage unit
Zeke's apartment
Raptor use/storage
Move everything we will not need for one year into local storage by Sunday, 9/15.
On Monday, 9/16, move Zeke and everything we might need for easy access to his new apartment. This will more than likely require a U-Haul moving truck. Most of it will be our stuff, like previous years' tax returns, important documents, family photos we don't want in storage, and cooking ware for big gatherings like Thanksgiving and Christmas.
On Tuesday, 9/17, the house will be almost completely empty (just beds and the items we will need in the Raptor), so we will begin ripping out all flooring and installing new wall-to-wall flooring, painting every ceiling, wall, and trim, landscaping the front and backyard, finishing painting the outside exterior, and cleaning up the horse pens to usable condition (we've been using them as junk storage lately).
The deadline to complete this is 9/30, less than three weeks away.
Everyone needs a Bekka in their life, especially when they're organizing or packing. She's a rockstar, and I am seriously leaning on her for guidance and direction. She's only 14, but her ability to think quickly through all the logistics and make sense out of chaos quickly is jaw-dropping. She could dominate the home organization industry. She definitely didn't get that talent from her parents, lol.
Deadlines are super motivating; this would never have been possible without one. So, we are aware that we did this to ourselves. However, at the moment, our brains are tired. Each and every item in our home must be analyzed to determine which of the three locations it will be sent to. Sounds easy enough, correct? It isn't.
If I had a dollar for every item I sent one way, only to have to remember which box I packed it in, unpack that box, find the one item, pack it in another box, and send it to a different location, I would have enough money to buy a matching Raptor.
This isn't your typical "pack it all up and get it on the truck" move. Being a retired military family, we've had our fair share of those types of moves, which are stressful enough!
This move has added an extra layer of "hard." But this family does hard things; we don't shy away from "hard."
So, pardon me as I chug another Nitro (an uber-healthy and safe energy drink) and grab another box to pack, stack, unpack, repack, and restack. The plan is fully set in motion. It's go-time, baby.
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