Moving Trucks, Boxes and a Happy New Year

We're in that limbo state currently.  You know the one... you have no official address, Christmas is over but you haven't celebrated New Year's yet. Just a constant state of loafing. I knew this moment would come too. I told several people that I just had to get the stupid trailer loaded and once it drove away everything else would be pie in the sky. It was true, however the events leading up to that were C-Razy!

Moving events rarely go off without any hitches. Or in our case on the first round there was no un-hitching to be had because the first truck from ABF (which was incredibly late) pulled up and attached was a very long flatbed trailer with one single cube on it. We had talked about doing cubes in our original plan and had decided that even four cubes probably wouldn't be enough for us and where in the world would we have put four cubes anyway? So needless to say, we told the driver, "We didn't order no stinkin' cube." and sent him on his way. So now our volunteer helpers were helpless and said to give them a call when the real trailer finally arrived. About an hour later it did and like an army nearly all our helpers returned to pack the trailer, un-hitched. 

Side note: We lived on a dead end so the traffic was fairly calm, however as our truck driver was trying to park a 28' trailer in a tight spot it seemed that every Tom, Dick, Harry and Sally wanted either in or out of the circle. It was a damn traffic jam to be precise.

I digress.

I kind of like the cleaning process, however realized that I had packed my scrub brush and all I had left was the toilet bowl cleaner which I planned to throw out. I'm sure the bleach killed anything that was on the brush as I used it to scrub some hard to reach surfaces. Also after I had cleaned all of the bedrooms, I needed to occupy Noelle and gave her a little bag of snacks which she and her little friend Eleanor dumped in her bedroom closet and were flicking through the space in the bottom of the doors. Boo came into the kitchen where I was cleaning and asked, "Did you see what they're doing in there?" Well duh, of course not because it wouldn't be happening. He thought it was funny to see little fingers flicking goldfish crackers out from under the doors and to hear two little girls giggle at the idea. I however was freaking out because I no longer had my trusty vacuum to clean up small crumbs and the thought of washing the floors again was not a pleasant one. However it obviously wasn't the end of the world because here I am blogging about it.

We finished the last bit of cleaning just as the ABF truck came to reattach the trailer and take away all my worldly possessions. I know that's all they are but I'll sure be sad it for some reason something happens to that trailer. 

Side note: One of our neighbors who might be missing the social skills part of her brain, just couldn't get over "how much stuff" we had. She just kept telling us how she couldn't believe we'd filled up that much of the truck. Only half really. 

So now we're just awaiting the arrival of Boo's parents and brother who will conclude their holiday travels in Maine here with us as we ring in the New Year. If anyone has any suggestions for celebrating with a 20 month old let us know.