Lost In the Shuffle

It seems that when something gets interrupted, even for a while, it's sometimes hard to pick it up and continue where you left.  So it has been with our blog. 

Let's see where to begin......

So we did end up moving.  John left around the middle of March of 2008 because the company wanted him to start work the following Monday.  It was extremely hard having him leave and me not being able to go with him.  Fortunately I had Leah, Ellone, Robert and Jessica to keep me company.  It was nice having them there with me since they could be working on what needed done to the house while I was at work and then we all would work on it after I got home......or so that was the plan.  However, things often just don't go as planned.

John and I had made a list of the things that I needed to have done before we could put the house on the market.  Among those things was to finish stripping the wallpaper in the master bedroom and paint it.  Take out the desk we had built into the closet in the office, finish texturing the wall in the entry way and various other improvements.   To help me out John and I decided that he should work on the things that I wouldn't be able to do once the movers had taken everything.  Among those things was the ladder.  The most challenging of the projects was the front entry.  With having a 15' wall to texture, we decided that he would do the part that I couldn't reach when standing on the floor with no ladder.  He textured the wall from the ceiling down to about 5-6 feet from the floor.  The rest I could reach.  Now in theory it was a good idea, however we hadn't thought about the fact that when one person textures and stops and then another person takes over, the 2 sections are not going to match.  So it was with the wall.  Try as I might I could not get the bottom part to look anywhere near the top.  I finally got them to look at least a little bit alike and figured that was a good as it was going to get.  I was lucky to get them as close as I did and even with what I did it took about 3 days of working at it before I was willing to say it was good enough. 

They say hindsight is better than foresight and so it is very true in large moves. Hire someone, don't move, do it before you leave, anything.  It's too hard, both emotionally and physically to do all the odds and ends of home repairs/ improvements if you are the one who has been left behind.  Save your life, save your marriage and save your sanity.  Hire someone or make sure it's done before they leave.  A word to anyone contemplating a cross country move that has a house that needs to be sold......DON'T!! 

7 Days and Counting

Well the movers have come and gone and the house is now almost totally empty with the exception of my air mattress and blankets, painting supplies for getting all of the projects done and various other small items scattered here and there.

I will be getting some pictures in the next few days to show the whole process and various shots during the day. It went very well and they packed and loaded all in one day. They are supposed to arrive in Chandler at our new home on Thursday, April 3.