Ay yi yi. Where do I begin?
The mover's called last Sunday evening to tell us that they were still working on another job and, therefore, wouldn't be at our house until noon on Monday IF they were able to make it at all. Otherwise they would be there Tuesday instead. "Don't worry, we will get you all packed and loaded by Wednesday." Monday was busy with errands, shipping my car, last minute packing of things that are going in the truck with us. The movers never showed.
Tuesday morning the movers arrived to start packing. OH! And to tell us that the previous job ended up being a lot bigger than anticipated and so they had to load an additional trailer. The trailer that was reserved for us. Another empty trailer wouldn't be available until it arrived on the barge Wednesday night at 10:30pm. So they said they would load us Thursday, which was my cleaning day.
After spending all day Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday packing and loading our house, we had only Thursday night to clean. We got it done, but with no time to spare. Friday morning we had our housing inspection at 10am and we were still loading things into the truck when they showed up.
Thankfully, the housing warrant was pretty impressed with the condition our unit was in, smeared paint from magic erasers and all. So, after the inspection we headed to base so that I could finally get a new ID. You can't even really see my picture so I'm sure they are going to make me get a new one in Clearwater. But, I have one and it's not expired, and that's what is most important. With the truck packed full, and I mean FULL, we went to get gas and then weigh the truck. We are carrying almost 2,200 lbs!!! After getting our weight ticket we dropped some stuff off at our hotel room and went to lunch. Oh and had to track down the movers to retrieve our cable box that they packed. I mean, in their defense, we only told them about five times NOT to pack it. After finding out it was gonna cost us $450, Kolt was not having it and made some calls. Thankfully, they were able to find the box and get it out for us. Brinleigh and I went back to the hotel room to take a nap and Kolt had to go back into work to do some more check-out paperwork.
Saturday we woke up and took our time getting ready and then we headed to the Coast Guard bar on base for a baby shower for some of our friends. Then we went to our lovely Boston/Quincy neighbors house for a homemade fried chicken dinner. It was amazing!
It has been an exhausting week to say the least. There have been so many emotions and headaches. At this point we are just trying to take it one stressful situation at a time. For my praying friends, please pray that we have patience. We really need it.
