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We've Moved.

Posted by Rebecca Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:09:00 GMT

We’ve moved and we are dog-tired from it.

This weekend, Becky and I moved out of our apartment and into a duplex. Including Becky and myself, we had 17 people helping out with the move on Saturday.

From packing our last few items to picking up the truck and feeding everyone, everything went smoothly. We ate lunch, moved everything out of the old place and into the new place in only two hours and fifteen minutes.

The word “fast” should be added to the proverb: Many hands make light work.

It should say: Many hands make light, fast work. Well, at least in this case.

Becky’s mom was a tremendous help before, during, and after the move. She is awesome. She came over early on Saturday, along with Becky’s brother and dad, to help us move our fragile stuff into vehicles before the masses descended upon us. Becky’s dad went over to the new place to meet the cable guy so we could have our internet access working while her brother and mom loaded stuff up. Her mom provided lunch and then after the move stayed over at our new place until late helping us clean and unpack the kitchen. She helped Becky get her bedroom and bathroom ready (which was good because I didn’t have a shower curtain and we both needed to have at least one clean bathroom to use).

Then on Sunday her mom went back to the new place after church and did a bunch more cleaning and unpacking in the kitchen, while Becky, Emily and I were at the old place cleaning.

Speaking of cleaning. We cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. We got to the apartment at about 1:00 PM and cleaned until about 6:00. Then Becky and I went home to get dinner, which her mother had provided for us (and it was a home cooked meal, too.). After we ate, we went to home depot to grab some light bulbs and keys and then went back to the apartment where we cleaned until nearly 10:00 PM. We finally finished and got to go home, eat some mint chocolate chip ice cream, watch some tv, and set up my bathroom so that I could function like a normal human being.

We still have boxes everywhere but the basics are in place. So far, I only found three broken plates, which really is not a big deal since they were all hand-me-downs anyway.

Oh and when we went back to our apartment on Sunday we found Becky’s curtain rod laying in the grass. Apparently it never made it into the truck on Saturday, and laid in the grass unnoticed for 24 hours. We grabbed it and have it at the duplex now. It was one funny little thing that happened.

Today I’m exceedingly glad to be at work because I will be forced to sit in a chair for 8 hours today and not exert myself physically. This is a very good thing because the last 6-7 days I’ve awakened in the morning only to feel like a steamroller ran over me multiple times during the night.

It’s all forward progress from here and I see rest and relaxation up head.

Thank God for everything He provides.