Pack out Day

December 4, 2009

My sewing room all ready to be boxed up.

As soon as Thanksgiving was over and cleaned up, we started preparing to move home. We spent days trying to make some sense of what should go home and what should stay here, sorting and organizing. We ended up with piles of stuff everywhere. Finally we got all the things that will stay here into a room and invited friends and neighbors to come see what they wanted. Much of the big furniture items where taken and a lot of the little stuff so now we are left with just a couple of boxes of things to take to the local second hand store.

With all the trips home, we brought quite a bit of stuff back with us and we have made a lot of Americans happy as we have shared our extra food (like Orvillereddenbacher Popcorn, Muffin mixes and cake mixes, baking soda, Fruit Loops, Twizzlers.....) and items like Ziplock bags.

The couches were all wrapped in cardboard- not an easy or quick job.

Kitchens always take so many boxes! It's a good reminder
for me to be grateful for cupboards, pantries, etc.

My friend, Marga, came over and spent the day with me to keep me company while
the packers were busy. We looked at perspective colleges for our daughters
google maps of places and things that we thought were interesting, etc.

Our container and packers.

We came here with 25 - 30 boxes and it took 16 weeks to get here. We are heading home with 85 pieces (2/3 full container) and we're hoping that it will take 6-8 weeks.

Such a happy and sad day. It was a good thing Marga was here of I might have sat down and had a good cry as the truck pulled away but it is nice to have the piles out of the way.

Now - just cleaning and final travel packing to do. One week from today, we will be at home, enjoying being with family and friends at Mandy's wedding. It's good to have a happy thing to look forward to because saying goodbye is so hard. I like these quotes:

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie


Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"


Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown

Happy Anniversary

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find
someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up
with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
~Author Unknown

On Friday, we celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary. It was a very busy and somewhat stressful day for Dennis. We celebrated by attending a Vital Scientific farewell party and then went to dinner with the management team. Our wonderful France and Rome trip was our anniversary celebration.

I have been so blessed to have a married a good man who is patient with me and is constantly encouraging me to learn and develop my talents.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance
and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney