The Final 3 Weeks

Well having successfully found a new place in Chandler about a week ago, we are now down to the last 3 weeks.

We had a great trip and absolutely love Chandler. It's a nice, clean town with lots of shopping malls, and most everything we'll need within about 3-4 miles from our new home.

We found a beautiful 2053 sq. foot, 4 bedroom house in a very nice subdivision so there is plenty of room for all of our family and friends to come and visit. John planned out his route to work and it should only take about 20-30 minutes for him to get to work. Of course he is spoiled because his drive time here to work is only about 10 minutes, but of course Chandler is slightly larger.

The movers come this Wednesday to pack our house and then they will load on Thursday. They expect to arrive in Chandler April 1-3 to deliver our stuff to our new home.

After the movers have left, the work will really begin. I don't think it will seem quite so bad once everything is out of the house. Then I will be able to see exactly what needs done in each room and do one room at a time and get it done as fast as possible. Right now it just looks very overwhelming.

I will put some pictures up as soon as John has internet connection and can upload some pictures.

The Before and After

Wow, I can't believe the time is drawing nearer to the time that John leaves for Arizona and I get to finish up the last few details of getting the house ready to put on the market.

Today was gorgeous and suprizingly warm so we took advantage of the fact it wasn't raining, snowing, sleeting or just plain freezing and got out and worked on "curb appeal" on a budget.

We made a trip to Lowes and picked up 6 or so plants of various kinds. Something to give some color to the flower beds. John had worked this week putting red bark on the front beds and we did the back bed last weekend when it was 72 degrees.

We had already planned on putting the red back down this spring anyway, but this just hurried us up a little, and we don't even get to enjoy how it looks, not for very long at least. I have included two before and after pictures of the back of the house that shows some of what we got accomplished. Of course it always looks better in person, but since nobody we know is planning a trip to Missouri in the next couple days, pictures will have to do.

Wanting to get the things done that I can't reach, like painting our 12' entrance, John has been working diligently all week getting the priorities done before we leave on vacation/house hunting on Tuesday. We'll return the following Monday night at around midnight. Since our flight is leaving from Kansas City, it will take about 3 hours to drive home. I have Tuesday off so will spend that doing John's laundry and we'll be getting his stuff or the stuff he will be taking with him ready to go and packed in his truck. He will leave Wednesday to make the drive to Arizona.

I don't think it has sunk in yet for me. I'm not excited, sad, weepy or any of my usual emotions that accompany knowing that I will have to be separated from my better half. This will be the longest and furthest we have ever been apart. I have come to the conclusion that this whole move hasn't hit me yet. I am just walking around, carrying on as usual and am afraid it will hit me about the time John pulls out of the driveway. I told John that my adrenalin will kick in after he's gone and I will be like a women on speed trying to get all the stuff I want to get done so I can leave.

Well that's it for now. I will post again after we get back from our trip to Arizona and show everyone our new place and some gorgeous Arizona pictures.