Digging Out
The past five days feel more like 10 or 15, so much has happened. Here is the non-creative run down.
Tuesday of last week we found out that the van was not going to be in Seattle as promised. We were really counting on the van being here to transport all of our stuff from the hotel to the new house. Since the transport company failed to meet the deadline, the Army will reimburse us for up to seven days of a rental car. So, the good news is that we have another car, the bad news is that it is a car, not a van, truck or semi and therefore moving from the hotel to the house would require multiple trips.
Wednesday morning we left the hotel bright and early to drop the kids off for school in Olympia, returned to Fort Lewis to pack up the hotel room, went back down to Olympia to sign for the house, went back up to Fort Lewis to pick up and load the rental car and then head down to Olympia to pick the boys up from school. Whew.
We finally got the keys to the house around 4pm and emptied the contents of both the rental car and my car into the house, grabbed some dinner and headed back to the hotel room in Fort Lewis for one last night.
Thursday morning we loaded up the rest of our stuff and checked out of the hotel after 29 nights. Good riddance. Once our moving company finally found our house, they brought us 8000+ pounds of household goods from Germany and I swear another 2000 pounds of cardboard and packing paper. So much stuff!
By 10pm we had most of the kitchen unpacked and all the beds made so we could sleep in our own house for the first time.
Friday morning was hook up and delivery day. The fridge, washer, and dryer were delivered and installed, the internet and tv guys came and did their thing and the furniture store came and delivered our new super comfy bonus room couch. In between deliveries and dropping off and picking up the kids, I unpacked a million boxes and Matt broke them down. We were 90% unpacked by the time we went to bed on Friday night.
The weekend brought more unpacking and organization. At this point I think there are only 3 boxes in the house and 2 in the garage that need to be unpacked. The boxes are unpacked and most things have found a home but there is still piles of stuff all over waiting to be put away. We are desperately in need of two dressers and a shelf unit. I could go buy said dressers but I have no way to get the items home because . . . circle back around to the top, we don't have our van!
We improvised in Eli's room and put a shelf we had in his closet and neatly folded his clothes on it. My closet is a different beast. It looks like the returns pile the day after Christmas at Walmart. Yikes. The closet is huge but it only has hanging space no drawers so my stuff is literally all over the floor.
Monday the blinds guy is coming to install all of the blinds. So, excited to have some window coverings in my room. Thankfully, we don't have neighbors yet but still, big open windows facing the street is a little challenging.
So the big task for the rest of the day today is to make sure the blinds guy can actually get to all of the windows: time to clear a path. The challenge for Monday is to get every last thing put away to make room for the stuff the delivery guys are bringing on Tuesday, another 500 pounds of our stuff from Germany.
At some point the delivery of our stuff that was in storage should show up and eventually my van should get here too.
I'm telling ya, it is such a process. You'd think I'd have this all down and mastered by now but you'd be wrong.
Tuesday of last week we found out that the van was not going to be in Seattle as promised. We were really counting on the van being here to transport all of our stuff from the hotel to the new house. Since the transport company failed to meet the deadline, the Army will reimburse us for up to seven days of a rental car. So, the good news is that we have another car, the bad news is that it is a car, not a van, truck or semi and therefore moving from the hotel to the house would require multiple trips.
Wednesday morning we left the hotel bright and early to drop the kids off for school in Olympia, returned to Fort Lewis to pack up the hotel room, went back down to Olympia to sign for the house, went back up to Fort Lewis to pick up and load the rental car and then head down to Olympia to pick the boys up from school. Whew.
We finally got the keys to the house around 4pm and emptied the contents of both the rental car and my car into the house, grabbed some dinner and headed back to the hotel room in Fort Lewis for one last night.
Thursday morning we loaded up the rest of our stuff and checked out of the hotel after 29 nights. Good riddance. Once our moving company finally found our house, they brought us 8000+ pounds of household goods from Germany and I swear another 2000 pounds of cardboard and packing paper. So much stuff!
By 10pm we had most of the kitchen unpacked and all the beds made so we could sleep in our own house for the first time.
Friday morning was hook up and delivery day. The fridge, washer, and dryer were delivered and installed, the internet and tv guys came and did their thing and the furniture store came and delivered our new super comfy bonus room couch. In between deliveries and dropping off and picking up the kids, I unpacked a million boxes and Matt broke them down. We were 90% unpacked by the time we went to bed on Friday night.
The weekend brought more unpacking and organization. At this point I think there are only 3 boxes in the house and 2 in the garage that need to be unpacked. The boxes are unpacked and most things have found a home but there is still piles of stuff all over waiting to be put away. We are desperately in need of two dressers and a shelf unit. I could go buy said dressers but I have no way to get the items home because . . . circle back around to the top, we don't have our van!
We improvised in Eli's room and put a shelf we had in his closet and neatly folded his clothes on it. My closet is a different beast. It looks like the returns pile the day after Christmas at Walmart. Yikes. The closet is huge but it only has hanging space no drawers so my stuff is literally all over the floor.
Monday the blinds guy is coming to install all of the blinds. So, excited to have some window coverings in my room. Thankfully, we don't have neighbors yet but still, big open windows facing the street is a little challenging.
So the big task for the rest of the day today is to make sure the blinds guy can actually get to all of the windows: time to clear a path. The challenge for Monday is to get every last thing put away to make room for the stuff the delivery guys are bringing on Tuesday, another 500 pounds of our stuff from Germany.
At some point the delivery of our stuff that was in storage should show up and eventually my van should get here too.
I'm telling ya, it is such a process. You'd think I'd have this all down and mastered by now but you'd be wrong.
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