Moving Day (or why I've decided never to move again)

Yesterday was moving day. No, not for me, but for one of my daughters.

When they were married a year and a half ago, they were pretty poor, and couldn't afford much in the way of rent payments. So they settled for a small, one bedroom apartment about a mile & a half up the road from us. It wasn't a bad apartment, just small--and these two kids have a lot of STUFF! It made a nice home for them, until recently. They have a lousy upstairs neighbor, had a ceiling cave in due to a leak in same upstairs neighbor's apartment, then were visited by rodents who found a hole in a wall not fixed by the repairmen who repaired the ceiling and wall damage done by the leak.

DD's husband now makes pretty good money and their lease was up, so they decided it was time to move on up in the world. They also decided they wanted no more upstairs neighbors. Just a couple of weeks ago, dd found the ideal place--a 2 bedroom townhouse in a small complex not too far away. So yesterday was "moving day."

Helpers began arriving as early as 7:30 yesterday morning (myself, dh, and dd's twin sister). Followed shortly after by my brother and his minivan. Then in-laws arrived at some point while we were delivering the first two loads to the new digs, and eventually the twin dd's dh found his way there. I say "found his way," because when Don & I were arriving with another load, here was twin dd standing on the curb, and off in the distance we could see a red vehicle climbing the hill towards us. Twin dd said that her dh had passed it up unknowingly, then called her cell phone for directions. The red vehicle we saw was him.

Cell phones are marvelous inventions--they were used a LOT yesterday!

Did I mention it was also more than 90 degrees yesterday? Did I mention there were stairs involved?

We had 3 pickup trucks, two mini-vans and one Toyota car shuttling things from the old place to the new. By 2-ish, we'd all had enough. But most importantly, almost all of their belongings were now at their new home. They've paid rent on the old place for August, so what's left as well as the cleaning, can be done another day or two.

They sure had a lot of "stuff" for a couple who has only been married a year and a half (almost).

And in another month, we'll probably be doing this for the twin dd, too! Ack! But twin dd promises their move will be easier, since her dh didn't have as much stuff.

It's been almost 20 years since we've moved, and I hope it will be another 20 years before we move again. And we'll pick a different time of year when we do move--I hate it when it's HOT!