Boxes...Part IX
Boxes, Part IX. After obsessing about boxes for a couple of weeks, I can report that Home Depot has extremely cheap moving boxes. If you plan on moving anytime soon, do yourself a favor and just go to Home Depot and buy the boxes. I don't know why I spent so much time comparison shopping, driving slowly past the backs of grocery stores and apartment complexes and even jumped in a dumpster at a Mexican restaurant...sheesh.
I thought packing up would be a very gradual thing, but as of this writing, we have almost no pictures on the wall, save our two very large framed travel posters in the living room. There is not one spare bit of decor sitting around. I have packed five bookcases full of books...for all my bitching about the books, they really don't take that long to pack. All of winter things are packed. I thought it would take me all month long, but it took about a week. Of course, there are still more things to pack up as we go along and the PODs (two of them) are coming on 6/1, so I'll have to move all of these boxes from the house out to the POD.
I have a reservation for us to stay at the glamorous Navy Lodge for the last couple of weeks in June until the house opens up on 7/1. I'm not complaining about the Lodge--after all, it has served us well many times (remember our six weeks there at the end of our last tour in Newport?--the bunker?) and it's half the price of a regular hotel. We'll have a suite with a kitchenette and right now, it sounds like heaven to have a limited amount of space that someone else cleans! I'll look upon it as a mini-vacation.
So, enough about moving...Annika's conjunctivitis was treated in a timely fashion and so never got gross and crusty. Thank goodness. She and Josiah returned to school today, which is good because I need to do a little housecleaning and squeeze a nap in at some point. All this packing is messing with my naptime, darn it! Hans is slowly recovering from his nasty cold...I wish he could take a sick day, but apparently the Navy can't spare him. Poor Kit.
Not a very exciting post, sorry friends...just a post about what's going on right now in Chesapeake!
I thought packing up would be a very gradual thing, but as of this writing, we have almost no pictures on the wall, save our two very large framed travel posters in the living room. There is not one spare bit of decor sitting around. I have packed five bookcases full of books...for all my bitching about the books, they really don't take that long to pack. All of winter things are packed. I thought it would take me all month long, but it took about a week. Of course, there are still more things to pack up as we go along and the PODs (two of them) are coming on 6/1, so I'll have to move all of these boxes from the house out to the POD.
I have a reservation for us to stay at the glamorous Navy Lodge for the last couple of weeks in June until the house opens up on 7/1. I'm not complaining about the Lodge--after all, it has served us well many times (remember our six weeks there at the end of our last tour in Newport?--the bunker?) and it's half the price of a regular hotel. We'll have a suite with a kitchenette and right now, it sounds like heaven to have a limited amount of space that someone else cleans! I'll look upon it as a mini-vacation.
So, enough about moving...Annika's conjunctivitis was treated in a timely fashion and so never got gross and crusty. Thank goodness. She and Josiah returned to school today, which is good because I need to do a little housecleaning and squeeze a nap in at some point. All this packing is messing with my naptime, darn it! Hans is slowly recovering from his nasty cold...I wish he could take a sick day, but apparently the Navy can't spare him. Poor Kit.
Not a very exciting post, sorry friends...just a post about what's going on right now in Chesapeake!
