One Week

Adam here. Today marks exactly one week left until we move to San Antonio. The past few days has been a whirlwind of activity. With the assistance of my brothers and our friend Dean, we tore up the old vinyl flooring in the kitchen and dining room, and then put down tile. It is now all nice and grouted, thanks to Brek (who is installing new baseboard molding today) and then all I have to do today is seal the grout and it is ready to have appliances moved back into the kitchen. With the assistance of Lisa's family, we painted the bathrooms and the office. They both look great now. It's the rest of the house that is a mess.

We moved a bunch of stuff out of the office in order to paint it, and that stuff is sitting in the garage, along side a bunch of the stuff that had to come out of the kitchen and dining room in order to do the tile. Good thing our cars are already on their way to San Antonio, eh? Also, our stove and fridge are currently in the living room until the tile is ready for them to be moved back in there. So the extreme disarray of the place is almost over.

And then it will all be thrown back into disarray on Thursday of this week. That's when the packers from the moving company will be arriving to pack everything up that we are allowed to ship down with us. I have no idea how long it will take, but I am really hoping it will go quickly. We need all the time we can get in order to finish a thorough cleaning and to do the yard work that needs to be done to pretty up the outside of the house. So that will be a bunch of weeding and laying down beauty bark.

It's crazy, though. Sometimes it still doesn't seem completely real that we are moving in a week. All of the stuff around the house that needs to be done has successfully distracted me from really taking in the enormity of what we are doing. We're moving halfway across the country, trying to rent out our house up here in Washington, and hoping for the best. We'll be separated from our families by quite a bit of distance, and on our own for the most part.

The strange part is that I am not scared about this huge change. I'm definitely nervous, of course, but not scared. I guess it's a side effect of my general "go with the flow" attitude toward life. That attitude has served me well in the past, and hopefully it will continue to do so going forward.

So, onward, I guess. We'll be doing a ridiculous amount of cleaning in the next few days.... You never realize just how much gunk can accumulate around and behind things that you really don't move very often. After the cleaning and the yard work comes the new carpet installation on the day before we fly out for good. I hope the renters appreciate and enjoy all the work that we have done to make the house nice for them.