The last several days have been so crazy that I’ve not had time to write any posts and so much has gone on that I can’t possibly get it all in one post.
Since the news of our PR approval, our lives have been sucked into a whirlwind. I feel like I’m in some sort of a state of shock. It’s all so surreal. Sorting, selling, purging and packing (3 times in 3 months now!) has consumed my life; trying to get all of our remaining belongings into 16 checked bags is quite complicated. On top of that were the heartbreaking goodbyes. Our wonderful children’s programs director at our church had a party for the younger four kids at our local YMCA on Saturday night. We had a great turnout and the kids had a blast. They really can’t wrap their heads around the concept of moving so far away.
Sunday morning, my tears began on the way to church. I had Praise Team practice before the service for the last time with this very special group of people that have been so important to me. The tears flowed throughout praise and worship during the service but when I realized we were singing the last song of the service of our last service at Science Hill Church of the Nazarene, I could barely get through the song. Then at the end of the service, our wonderful church family gathered around us and prayed for our new life, safe travels, etc. Hugs and goodbyes were shared and many, many, many tears!
From church we headed to the going away party at a local community room given by some wonderful friends. People came and went for 3 hours, chatting, hugging, crying and signing the going away book. By 4 we were exhausted. I tried to catch a quick nap before Billy and I had dinner with our pastor and his lovely wife.
Monday was spend packing, selling and I had lunch with my two BFFs. But Tuesday was the most hectic day! We had reservations to rent a small moving van and an SUV to get the 8 of us, Pete and 20+ pieces of luggage to Mississippi. We arrived at the Budget rental place to find that they mistakenly had our reservation for 5:30pm rather than 11am. We then drove to the Lexington to collect the SUV. I went on to purchase 3 additional suitcases while Billy and Kaigan collected the moving van from another location. I had expected to get back to the house by noonish to get to laundry and packing but instead had to collect the kids from school and get them settled at the hotel with an awesome friend who watched them swim and took them to eat. I ran a couple of other errands before finally getting to the rental house to start packing. By this point the job looked impossible! I was on the verge of a panic attack. Dear Cindy came over and along with Billy, we got to work. Oh yeah, by the way, Mikaylie and Graham both had the flu!!! Mikaylie on top of feeling awful, had to say farewell to her boyfriend of nearly 2 years and his family.
By 10pm, the house was still not packed or cleaned. I went on to the hotel to relieve my friend and get the kids to bed. We would NOT be leaving by 9am as planned.
To be continued…
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