Meanwhile in Mount Joy we initiated the same process but before the official start I let myself sit with the memories this house gave us. New life came into our family in the time we lived here. I didn’t understand why this change was for us and I may never know. Through it all though I am choosing to celebrate God’s faithfulness and goodness. Join me to walk through this house made home one last time.
As a family we have so much to be thankful for — now, back to work!
Audrey was incredible and helped by listing the items we would not be keeping on Facebook. The boys schlepped boxes and furniture all over for me and they also worked to maintain the lawn. Ryan kept working his full-time job and would jump helping wherever needed in the evenings. And the dogs, they were having a blast with all the chaos! We had a lot to accomplish in just five days! We had booked our U-haul for Thursday so we could load it for our first trip up. It was going to hold mostly our ridiculously large but beautiful Omani furniture and whatever boxes we could squeeze in. While my boys are strong and together with Ryan they could do everything, we still knew it was going to be helpful to have some help loading the truck. We had intentionally asked for help from one family and having their commitment to come helped keep us on task, which was great because Thursday came in a flash!
Move day-one arrived and Ryan planned to leave work a smidge early to be able to pick up the U-haul but in his wisdom he decided to call first to make sure the truck was ready for him to pick up. And drum roll please… what do ya’ know, it wasn’t. Of course it wasn’t. No, that attitude serves no one, but seriously, we are MOVING! What do you mean we need to call customer service to find another truck! Then to be told the closest available truck is over 1 hour away.
Sigh.
Goodness, huh?
Well there was this… I was called and texted multiple times by the team painting at the lake house and all was moving along great, yeah, right!!!?
Back to the truck debacle, Ryan’s co-workers picked up on what was happening as he talked with U-haul service and one kind co-worker followed up with Ryan and let him know he has an old but “should do the job” 16-foot trailer. To which Ryan explained, our old farm truck most assuredly could not pull the trailer and to that, his co-worker offered his truck also! I’d like to think we are the same kind of people who would offer our “shirts off our back too.”
Oh good. Yes, good!
We then let his co-worker know we had booked U-haul trucks for two weekends (because our steep driveway cannot accommodate a full-size moving truck) so we asked to borrow his truck and trailer again the following weekend, which he said was fine.
Double good and now it’s time to load ‘er up!!!
