Let the Craziness begin

School is officially on hiatus until we are moved and settled, so I'm guessing till the end of September!! Can you hear the kids yelling in pure excitement? Little do they know that the next few weeks are going to be busy, hectic, chaotic, crazy – what other synonym can I use? And they are going to be involved with a lot of organizing, packing and unpacking.

So far Jay has reserved our moving truck (using ABF – we pack it, load it, they drive/transport it, and we unload it), signed and faxed the rental agreement, got his ordination on the bishop's schedule (will be Bishop Holloway of Southern Ohio Synod), cancelled our Sprint service, worked a 15 hour shift, and gave his notice at his job (YEAH!!). I too have notified my coordinator that it is official, we are moving and I will be done delivering all those papers on Sept. 6^th. YEAH me, too!!

Both tomorrow and Wednesday mornings, Jay & I will go over to our storage units and bring the possessions of one back to the house so we only have to pay rent for one till we move. Then the final packing phase will begin. In a matter of days we will be leaving the great state of Ohio and heading to North Dakota. As of right now, here's a brief glimpse of what is to be:

Clean, clean, clean, - Organize, organize, organize -Pack, pack, pack

Sept. 8^th – ABF drops the 28' trailer for us to load

LOAD the moving truck

Sept. 9^th – Jay's ordination

LOAD the moving truck

Sept. 11^th – ABF picks up trailer and heads north; we too head north

Sept. 12^th – 14^th – in Iowa visiting my family (bro & sil, sis & beau, mom & dad)

Sept. 15^th – drive and arrive in Lincoln, ND

Sept. 16^th – clean house and prepare for the arrival of moving truck

Sept. 17^th – moving truck arrives in Lincoln, ND – UNLOAD & unpack, unpack, and unpack

We'll have several days to unload . . . UNPACK and unpack and unpack . . .

Sept. 20^th – Jay does his first service at Peace Lutheran (so somewhere in between everything, Jay has to write a sermon)

Continue to get settled in . . .

Oct. 5^th – school resumes!! And we try to get back some normalcy in our daily lives!!

Obviously this is a tentative schedule, and as we all know, nothing is definite, so I'm sure there'll be various twists and turns that will alter some part of my perfectly scheduled transition.