Packing Stinks

Andy and I thought we had plenty of time to get all of our things packed.  HA!  That plenty of time has now shrunk to a week.  I started packing up one room today, and I'm already tired of it.  I do know we will need a ton more boxes, that's for sure.  Our goal is to be out of our home - our first home - by next weekend.  Then we will have a few days to clean up our house and do any touch ups that are needed.  According to all of our closing dates, we will be homeless for about two weeks.  I am still not 100% exactly where we will be staying, either in the camper or with Andy's parents.  I'm leaving those decisions up to Andy to figure out.

We are going to store all of our boxes, electronics, and anything that needs to be stored in a cooler climate in a climate-controlled storage building in Katy.  Our furniture we are storing on a trailer and backing it into a family friend's garage at his weekend home.  We were trying to keep from having to load and unload everything twice.  We had thought about renting one of those PODS, but they were too expensive for our budget.  I just keep praying that everything continues to work out and that this transition goes smoothly.

Monday we are going to visit the Property Owner's Association and get all of the information we need about the annual dues and building a new fence.  We are getting a sellers assist from the owners to replace the fence on the new home.  It's currently in bad shape.  The bottom of the fence has gaps between it and the ground and it's very "shaky."  We're afraid Maddie could simply jump on it and knock it over.  We also have to talk to the representative from Entouch.  Our community has a bundled package for Internet, cable tv, security, phone, etc.  Unfortunately, we have to use their services until 2017.  We're really sad to be losing our satellite, but it'll be fine.

We are also going to Lumber Liquidators to pick out our new flooring for the living room, formal dining which we are converting into the office/scrapbook room, and the media room.  We may even stop by Rooms-to-Go to look at new leather furniture for the living room.  We also need to buy a new mattress for our bed.  Hopefully, we will be able to make these purchases with the money leftover from the sale of our home.