20 things I’ve learned while preparing to move
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When we returned from our official find-a-job-and-a-place-to-live trip to North Carolina, we realized that we had literally 10 days to prepare ourselves, our belongings, and our current residence to move. These 10 days have been a frenzy of cleaning, organizing, purging, and packing. And here’s some of the things that I have learned during this process.
1. Humor helps.
2. Office space can be combined with nursery space.
3. Turning the toddler bed into a “tent” makes room transitions easier:
4. Chocolate should be kept on hand:
5. You will run out of chocolate.
6. Humor helps:
7. You will run out of humor. Then you will turn to copious amounts of coffee:
8. You will make countless trips to Goodwill and become good friends with the Habitat for Humanity truck:
9. Kids are resilient:
10. When you are preparing to move during the week of Spring Break, all of your friends will be out of town and the CDC will be booked. You will realize that you actually can survive with a 2 1/2 year old underfoot. And you will crave lots of chocolate and drink lots of coffee to survive.
11. 2 1/2 year olds are more help than you might think:
12. The work goes faster when you work as a team:
13. Nursery space can become storage space:
14. Somewhere between moving rooms and countless trips to Goodwill, you will realize how much stuff you STILL have after getting rid of so much.
15. You will also realize that you have an addiction to plastic storage bins:
(there are about double this amount not pictured)
16. Smashing boxes is fun
17. Some days you will start with great ambitions of getting work done:
18. Some days your morning appointments will take twice as long as they normally do, you don’t eat breakfast until 11am, you will have a mommy meltdown by 1pm, and your husband calls it quits for the day by 2PM. Instead of working, you will go out for ice cream and park time.
19. Chocolate fixes everything:
20. You will realize that breaks must be taken, and family time is important, even when you are moving:
16 Comments
Stacey Jordan
Wow! 10 days to move, that’s tough. I had 7 days to move once during a deployment but the good thing is it was still in housing like 2 blocks away!
I took notes- humor and chocolate I think are very important!
Aprille
Well it’s been more than that really. We have known we would be moving for months, we just didn’t know where and when specifically. When we hit January first I really started working hard on organizing and purging and a little bit of cleaning. I guess you could say that I did a lot of PRE moving work. But we had planned to move mid April but had to move those dates up by a week so it’s been a little hectic. At least the army is packing us!
Julie DeNeen
Loved this. What a great photo journey of your move!
Jen
You are right. Chocolate does fix everything!
The Sadder But Wiser Girl
Moving for us is something that I really don’t want to experience again anytime soon, but it looks like we may have to so we can be closer to my husband’s work. Our last move just about killed me. A sense of humor, caffeine and chocolate are definite musts!
Aprille
Military families move every 2-3 years!! This is my third move in 5 years. And we will probably move again after we are more settled in North Carolina, as we will need more space. But, hopefully THAT will be the last time for a while! It’s hard sometimes!
The Sadder But Wiser Girl
I am a navy brat by birth, so I can relate to the moving often as a child. But the advantage was that I wasn’t the adult responsible for all of that. I moved every year for many years, but it really didn’t bother me! I didn’t have to take charge of all of the other stuff!
Aprille
Oh yes. We moved a lot as kids too but being the adult is a whole new ball game!! lol
Stacey Jordan
Oh good, glad you had some time to prepare!
Mary Bush
I have a lot of tupperware containers as well. Makes moving SO much easier!
wifosaurus
I LOVE the dry erase boards—too funny!
We had a bit more time for packing up and moving, but only 7 days to find a house, and, when our truck was delayed 2 weeks and came only 3 days before our pre-scheduled housewarming party, I had only 2 days to unpack the entire house. Still not sure how I managed that. Pretty sure God held the sun in the sky for me like he did with the Israelites 🙂
Aprille
Oh that sounds like a nightmare! Glad you survived!
paula
love it! glad you made it through 🙂
I hope settling in to the new place is a bit less hectic than moving out of this one was 😉
Aprille
It’s been a little rushed and hectic…but overall not that bad. Things have gone quickly but smoothly. And our stuff isn’t coming til Monday, which is frustrating, but on the other hand, gives me a little more chance to rest before the flurry of moving in and unpacking.
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