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March 30, 2006
Moving. Yes, *again*
(NOTE: Several of these entries are not real time. They were written as samples that I've decided to go ahead and publish in a blog specifically about this move.)
When we moved from Texas to Maryland, we didn’t have a lot of time. It was three weeks from the time we found out we were moving until we all arrived, with our stuff. Part of the reason we were able to move so quickly was that we were moving in semi-temporarily with my dad. The other reason is that I can’t resist a challenge, and I packed my ass off!
Now we’re planning on moving back to Texas, but without the benefit of a furnished and food-filled house to return to. This is good news in a lot of ways – I’ll finally be able to use the furniture I picked out, and unpack all the stuff I know I own but haven’t been able to find for the last year and a half. The bad news is that there area whole lot of decisions to make in a short period of time, and while some of the decisions are exciting and fun, some are downright ulcer inducing. Picking a city (Rex’s job is letting us move back without specifying where,) a neighborhood, a house (we’ll be traveling to Texas for a weekend – a weekend! - to find the perfect house,) a realtor, a mortgage company. The list goes on and on. Some of the decisions have to be made right away, others can wait, like finding a preschool for our older daughter for the fall.
Follow me on this journey back across the country. I’ll be trying to decipher closing costs while juggling my two daughters, buying a home long distance while my husband is New Mexico working, and trying to work out the logistics of getting two adults, two kids, three cats, one hermit crab and a truckload of stuff across the country safely and hopefully sanely!
Posted by me at March 30, 2006 9:40 PM