5 Days to Lift Off

This week has been filled with a lot of big ticket items. John and I have been working on selling both vehicles this week. I am so grateful we were both able to find the registrations, titles, etc. needed to complete the quotes. Mine is scheduled to be picked up on Monday morning. We are still waiting to hear back about John's.

Meanwhile, I've been trying to unload the last of our furniture that we don't want to store and that I don't want to work at selling. We exchanged all the money we made on Craigslist furniture for euros this week.

Sunday I got to see all of my boys. It was such a treat to have all three of them together. My grandson was here, too! I felt so blessed. I will miss them a lot.

My boys helped the couple who bought our bed set move it out to their truck Sunday afternoon. That was some good timing on their part.

Today I've been sorting through the last of our things. On Monday I put most of our items into one room. I went through all the closets and storage areas and pulled out all the boxes and items we have left.

It was overwhelming at first to see all the stuff we had left to go through but by this morning we've made significant progress. We have three corners designated as trash, donation and storage. They make it so easy to organize everything. I've already taken out one big trash bag and packed a couple of boxes. We should be done with all of it by Friday morning.

I actually took a break from things yesterday. It rained all day and I spent the morning with my friend. When I got back home I decided I had been busy enough over the weekend, especially since I was sick.

John is sick today. I was sick from last Thursday to yesterday. The fact that I've been able to do so much despite being sick has amazed me. But when one has only one week left before the big move, one just gets it all done.

I am sure we will all sleep well for a couple of days once we get to Barcelona. Ah, Barcelona, our new home. I learned today as I was scheduling a client session that Cairo and Barcelona are in the same time zone. How about that? So next week when I see my client, we'll be working together in the same part of the day.

Hmmm...what else? Oh, I need to take pictures. One day we'll have the pics I've been taking in our blog posts. Right now, I just take them and store them.

Okay, I am going to go take those pictures now. It will be fun to see the progress we've made. I say fun because these days are intense. I would not say they are fun at all. Everything has sped up towards the end and it has been hard on all of us, it's probably why we got sick.

But we are not giving up. We are so close. We pick up our visas tomorrow morning which means we are driving to Houston at the crack of dawn.

Speaking of driving at the crack of dawn, is 6:35 right now so it is time to take pictures, eat some dinner and get to bed early.