Another Moving Entry
Posted by admin4
I expect that the next several blog entries will all revolve around our upcoming move. So if you don’t care to hear, check back in June!! LOL
So….they come for our first round of household goods tomorrow. This shipment will be the goods that are to come quickly. We were originally told it would be there waiting for us when we arrive. Now we’re being told it will be a couple weeks later. :rolleyes: We’ll see what htey tell us tomorrow! We can send about 1000 pounds tomorrow. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? I think it will be. But HOW in the heck do we know how much that is?! LOL We’re trying to figure out what we want to send (no furniture except the crib) but we just don’t know how much to set out. Hopefully they’ll be able to estimate what we already have out and that will help us figure out what else to send. And its hard to figure out what things we’ll want right away but that are also things we can do without for the next month!!
Next Monday & Tuesday the movers come for the rest of our goddies, minus the things that will be in our luggage.
Elizabeth was visibly stressed today as we emptied the dining room out to make room for tomorrow’s packing. 
I plan to take her out a bit while Jiim supervises the madness. Hopefully that will make things a little easier on her. I’m more worried about next week for her and the cats.
Ugh. I hate the process of moving!!! Yea, I know, great occupation for that. :rolleyes:
The First of Many
Posted by happygrl6
Uggh….I just had a nice long entry and somehow lost it.
What an emotional 24 hours!!
Last night I took Mom to the airport. Elizabeth stayed awake until we *just* pulled into the airport. I was praying she'd fall asleep before I dropped my mom. I knew she would cry and breakdown if she saw Mom getting out of the car and leaving, which would only make it harder on everyone. Thankfully, she fell asleep first. But that goodbye was still so very tough. When Jim goes to school, I'll be going home for a bit but we dont' know when he'll go…could be September, could be February. Hopefully sooner than later.
Today I said goodbye to my dear AFTB office. That office has been such a large part of my life. I arrived here just a few days before I came to my first class. I was hooked and immediately took the other levels and then became a volunteer. When Jim first deployed, I spent SO many hours there. I needed to be out of our home, to have a purpose…to not be lonely. And the office and the people provided that for me. I'm not sure how I would have gotten through those first couple months without it. I know that is a common saying about all kinds of things in our society today but I mean it from the deepest part of my heart. I hadn't made many friends outside of AFTB yet, so I would have been terribly, terribly lonely. As time went on, I needed the office less but I didn't let the friends go, they are still a very important part of my life. And, oh, how Elizabeth grown! I had known I was pregnant for just 48 hours when I took my first class….and now she's a crazy 18-month old!! I've grown so much as a person, as a military wife and as a mother.
Then tonight was the goodbye to my spouses' club. I've been consistently involved with the club but not much with individuals outside of the club. Still, it was sad to say goodbye. I've been involved with it since a few days after I arrived here.
When I left Chicago, saying goodbyes were very sad but not tough in terms of knowing those people would still be there. Now….I could easily never see any of these people again. That's just a weird thoguht to me. I'll stay in touch with close friends but those people who are more casual acquainteances, how do I say goodbye? Have a good next 70 years?! Its just such a weird thing to me.
I'm grateful that so many people are going with us to Germany. A brigade move makes it that fewer number of people I have to farewell for now.
And so it begins…
The First of Many
Posted by happygrl6
Uggh….I just had a nice long entry and somehow lost it.
What an emotional 24 hours!!
Last night I took Mom to the airport. Elizabeth stayed awake until we *just* pulled into the airport. I was praying she'd fall asleep before I dropped my mom. I knew she would cry and breakdown if she saw Mom getting out of the car and leaving, which would only make it harder on everyone. Thankfully, she fell asleep first. But that goodbye was still so very tough. When Jim goes to school, I'll be going home for a bit but we dont' know when he'll go…could be September, could be February. Hopefully sooner than later.
Today I said goodbye to my dear AFTB office. That office has been such a large part of my life. I arrived here just a few days before I came to my first class. I was hooked and immediately took the other levels and then became a volunteer. When Jim first deployed, I spent SO many hours there. I needed to be out of our home, to have a purpose…to not be lonely. And the office and the people provided that for me. I'm not sure how I would have gotten through those first couple months without it. I know that is a common saying about all kinds of things in our society today but I mean it from the deepest part of my heart. I hadn't made many friends outside of AFTB yet, so I would have been terribly, terribly lonely. As time went on, I needed the office less but I didn't let the friends go, they are still a very important part of my life. And, oh, how Elizabeth grown! I had known I was pregnant for just 48 hours when I took my first class….and now she's a crazy 18-month old!! I've grown so much as a person, as a military wife and as a mother.
Then tonight was the goodbye to my spouses' club. I've been consistently involved with the club but not much with individuals outside of the club. Still, it was sad to say goodbye. I've been involved with it since a few days after I arrived here.
When I left Chicago, saying goodbyes were very sad but not tough in terms of knowing those people would still be there. Now….I could easily never see any of these people again. That's just a weird thoguht to me. I'll stay in touch with close friends but those people who are more casual acquainteances, how do I say goodbye? Have a good next 70 years?! Its just such a weird thing to me.
I'm grateful that so many people are going with us to Germany. A brigade move makes it that fewer number of people I have to farewell for now.
And so it begins…
The First of Many
Posted by admin4
Uggh….I just had a nice long entry and somehow lost it.
What an emotional 24 hours!!
Last night I took Mom to the airport. Elizabeth stayed awake until we *just* pulled into the airport. I was praying she'd fall asleep before I dropped my mom. I knew she would cry and breakdown if she saw Mom getting out of the car and leaving, which would only make it harder on everyone. Thankfully, she fell asleep first. But that goodbye was still so very tough. When Jim goes to school, I'll be going home for a bit but we dont' know when he'll go…could be September, could be February. Hopefully sooner than later.
Today I said goodbye to my dear AFTB office. That office has been such a large part of my life. I arrived here just a few days before I came to my first class. I was hooked and immediately took the other levels and then became a volunteer. When Jim first deployed, I spent SO many hours there. I needed to be out of our home, to have a purpose…to not be lonely. And the office and the people provided that for me. I'm not sure how I would have gotten through those first couple months without it. I know that is a common saying about all kinds of things in our society today but I mean it from the deepest part of my heart. I hadn't made many friends outside of AFTB yet, so I would have been terribly, terribly lonely. As time went on, I needed the office less but I didn't let the friends go, they are still a very important part of my life. And, oh, how Elizabeth grown! I had known I was pregnant for just 48 hours when I took my first class….and now she's a crazy 18-month old!! I've grown so much as a person, as a military wife and as a mother.
Then tonight was the goodbye to my spouses' club. I've been consistently involved with the club but not much with individuals outside of the club. Still, it was sad to say goodbye. I've been involved with it since a few days after I arrived here.
When I left Chicago, saying goodbyes were very sad but not tough in terms of knowing those people would still be there. Now….I could easily never see any of these people again. That's just a weird thoguht to me. I'll stay in touch with close friends but those people who are more casual acquainteances, how do I say goodbye? Have a good next 70 years?! Its just such a weird thing to me.
I'm grateful that so many people are going with us to Germany. A brigade move makes it that fewer number of people I have to farewell for now.
And so it begins…
Monday Irritations
Posted by admin4
I am SO ready for this move to just be over!! It has some extra complications since it is a brigade move and not a normal PCS move (and a few advantages) that are incredibly annoying. Add to that, Jim is in air assault school for another week and he started over the weekend. So no weekend downtime for me. And every evening last week was spent getting ready for it, so little downtime for me then. Late nights this week & lots of studying, so again, no downtime. Plus he’s just being a plain ‘ol pain in my rear these last few days!! 
My mom is coming this weekend, which really excites me. But I’m also stressing about it because that will be the last time I see her for a year-ish. And the last time she’ll see E. :( It is always tough for me to take her to the airport anyway but this time is going to be so, so tough. Easter weekend we’ll spend getting ready for the first round of movers, that week we’ll spend getting ready for the second round, Jim’s parents come that weekend (HORRIBLY bad timing but they didn’t listen to us before they bought their tickets, so they’ll have to deal with us not being available the entire time) and the second round of movers come that Monday. THEN we can rest though we’ll be resting on air mattresses with a couple books, a laptop and a portable DVD player because everything else will be gone. LOL Times like this I wonder WHY we’re doing this military thing!! So, if you’re the prayerful-type, I’d appreciate any you can spare. If not, keeping us in your thoughts would be appreciated.