Day 10

Went by with no blog update, sorry guys!  Really, really busy day!

Day 11

What a nightmare of a day!  It started off well, I got some things exchanged, finished up some things for Ronnie, got some bags packed, it was going great.  About 6 pm a woman knocks on the door and said that she read in the paper that we were having a yard sale THIS WEEKEND and wanted to go through things.  This weekend???  NO, it was supposed to be NEXT WEEKEND!  The paper got the dates wrong!  We let her look around, I thought it would be 15-30 minutes, make $20, badda bing, badda boom.  She was here almost FIVE HOURS!!!  She pulled out a bunch of stuff that she wanted, but we hadn't had time to go through everything and decide what we wanted for anything, and Sherry Spence (our great auctioneer from 3G's Auction) hadn't had time to go through that stuff either.  I was freaking out, I didn't know what to do.  Anyway, about four hours in, I called Sherry in a panic.  She has calmed my nerves a bit.  I am going to tape off the driveway and put a sign up saying that the yard sale is next weekend and call the paper and have them run it next week.  Sherry is going to come Monday and help me out, and I will call the other lady that came by today after that and let her know about prices and what not.  I am tired, frustrated, and just ready to be done with all this.  I am going to go to bed now, and deal with Day 10 tomorrow.  Goodnight!

Day 12

Holy Moly did we get a lot done today!  Everything in the garage is now gone through and everything we are keeping or shipping has been removed, the yard sale can proceed!  The china got packed, all of the utilities were called and scheduled to be terminated, addresses changed, suburban taken care of, and probably another dozen or so things that I can't even remember right now.  Only sad news of the day, my new camera was supposed to be here today but it did not come.  Things are getting down to the nitty gritty, but progressing nicely.  There is no backing out now!  I am experiencing emotional meltdown, bouncing between terror and bliss, there seems to be no middle ground.  This is the end of Day 12, a week and a half to go, and my sanity is lost some where in the luggage I believe.  I hope to find it when I unpack on Caye Caulker.  If any of you out there find it, please send it to me?  I miss my poor sanity!  See you on Day 11, goodnight all!

Day 13

I am starting to get confused as to which day it is.  Two hours of sleep here, three there, none anywhere else...  I have to check my phone so it can tell me what day it is.  I didn't get much done today except getting the ad in the paper and chasing children around all day.  They aren't sleeping much either, and that makes them grumpy, which in turn makes ME grumpy, even Rick threatened to send them all off to military boarding school last night.  Oh, we did finalize plans to get us to Ft. Lauderdale, so that is a HUGE load off of my mind!  I am trying to go to bed now, perhaps sleep will visit for a while.  See you on Day 12!  Goodnight.

Day 14...

TWO WEEKS  TWO WEEKS  TWO WEEKS, OMG!!!  Just had to get that out.  I tried to go back to sleep after Trey woke me up this morning. Btw, to Tammy Fletcher, he was looking for his guitar shirt, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!  LOL  But sleep eludes me, lists kept running through my head, so up I am (why do I sound like Yoda this morning?) and started I must be.  I will probably post again tonight, if I can still put two coherent words together that is.
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Ok, it is almost midnight.  I did get the kids' medical records today, picked up more packing supplies, scheduled Albany Rescue Mission to come pick up what ever is left on April 16, got the title on the car fixed and even managed a 30 minute nap.  I am going to get the ad in the paper for our yard sale, finish packing the boxes that need to be shipped, organize the things going to auction and scan photos tomorrow.  Every day is whizzing by, and I am not sure if I will be able to sleep again tonight, so if you are up around 4am EST, poke me, I might be lying awake in the dark!  Good night all, see you on Day 13...

4:00 am

It is 10 minutes to 4 in the morning, sleep where are you?

Day 15

Today was LAUNDRY DAY.  I finally finished going through all the kids laundry, washing, sorting, bagging or packing all of their clothes.  I got some of mine done as well, but that isn't a priority since my clothes are easy.  I have been busy all day, and am rather tired and cranky right now.  My poor children were sent to bed tonight, not with hugs and kisses and wishes for sweet dreams, but with a screaming, threatening, spanking shrew of a mother.  I feel rather bad, but if one of them pops their cute little heads out of their rooms, I am afraid that they will lose the aforementioned cute little head.  I don't know why I am so crabby today.  We leave two weeks from tomorrow and I am stressing a little I guess, but I am not normally a screaming harpie.  Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day.  Two weeks, wow.  See you tomorrow.