It\u2019s Tuesday, August 9 and it has been a full week since we finished up at our house.\u00a0Originally we were trying to be out by August 1st, but we were in way over our heads and didn’t yet realize it.\u00a0 Fortunately, some good friends\u00a0and relatives stepped in to lend\u00a0a hand or we would still be there packing even now.\u00a0 Many thanks to my mom, Melissa’s Aunt Debbie,\u00a0my mother-in-law Trudy, Kate and Storly,\u00a0Steve and Keri, Brad, Todd, Amanda, Dorelle, Bethany, Emily and anyone else I may have forgotten!<\/p>\n\n\n
\u00a0We still don\u2019t have internet connection at my mother-in-law\u2019s house, so even though much has happened in the past two weeks, I haven\u2019t been able to communicate in that time.\u00a0 Let\u2019s just say we have been busy \u2026 and I have moved my share of boxes from here to there \u2026 and sometimes back to there.\u00a0 I believe I have been permanently cured of materialism.\u00a0 In the midst of all this STUFF, I found myself wishing us back to Haiti where we stayed in a borrowed house and didn’t have access to any or OUR stuff beyond what Melissa packed in a few suitcases.\u00a0 Sure, there were some inconveniences, but nothing that got in the way of living…<\/p>\n\n\n
This was the wackiest moving experience Melissa and I have ever endured.\u00a0 It was exhausting to sort through items and determine which way to throw each thing:\u00a0 Garbage?\u00a0 Garage sale?\u00a0 Take to Trudy’s house with us?\u00a0 Leave for the renters?\u00a0 Put in long term storage?\u00a0 Put in storage to take to Haiti with us in a year?\u00a0 Give to some specific person?<\/p>\n\n\n
The hermit crab went to the renters’ kids.\u00a0 Three surviving fish and their tank went to our neighbors.\u00a0 Two boxes of books went to the church library.\u00a0 Our big-boned sectional couch was BARELY squeezed out of our basement and taken to Trudy’s house … only to discover there was no way it was going to be squeezed into her basement.\u00a0 My brother Russ came to get it instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
On Monday, August 1st, we were making decent\u00a0time with the final odds and ends around the house\u00a0and the renters were assuring us that they weren’t moving in until Wednesday, so Melissa took the kids into the pool for one last swim.\u00a0 While that was going on, Beka called from OMS and I put her on speaker phone by the pool as she announced that we had formally been accepted as missionaries by OMS!\u00a0 Now it feels like we are making some progress!<\/p>\n\n\n
The kids have continued to be very flexible through this part of the process … although\u00a0Dats (age 10)\u00a0has gotten a bit teary eyed a few evenings.\u00a0 Seems the one thing he is missing the most from our house is his bed.\u00a0 I had made it specially for him and for Ida about three years ago.\u00a0 I didn’t realize how much it meant to him.\u00a0 I may have to build him something in Haiti!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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