Moving Day!

Well, it has been a month since my last post, so I thought I better send out an update. Not that anyone really reads this blog but while I'm sitting here watching the moving company pack our belongings I may as well do something. So the last month in a nutshell....not much except organizing and getting ready for the move and discovering this will be our most stressful move yet. Another overseas move, a third child, spending 6-8 weeks in Colorado while Devin stays in England to finish, purchasing a car in the U.S over the phone
are just some of the added stresses we've been facing. Oh and how do you pack for a 10 week vacation covering 2 countries, 3 states, and 3 climates without access to any of our belongings except what we can fit into 10 suitcases? We'll be so glad when it's over. The kids are feeling some of our stress too and acting out of sorts. Patience is not one of their strong suits especially when a young child has no real concept of time. The next 2 days the house will be packed into boxes and slowly emptied and loaded onto crates. We are amazed at how the movers load each crate like putting a puzzle together. The kids think it's fascinating that their toys will be shipped to California on a big boat that will take 6 weeks to get there when we can fly there in only one day.

In other news....Austin lost his first tooth a couple weeks ago and the second one is nearly ready to fall out. Looks like he'll be missing his front teeth for Christmas! I would post a pictures but our home computer is packed up. Austin is very excited at the prospect of making some money off the tooth fairy to put towards something he wants for Christmas.

We also sold our car the very last day of the ad we had placed. The new owners drove 2 hours to see it and took it home that day. Talk about a "God thing". We were worried it would have to sit in a lemon lot somewhere while we fly to the U.S. and Devin would have to sell it when he returned but what a blessing to have it sell so quickly. This of course has left us without a car for a few weeks but the kids have enjoyed taking the bus to Church and into the city for shopping.

So we will be spending the next 2 weeks cleaning the house and hanging out while Devin finishes writing his last few chapters and then we are homeward bound!