Which is strange since I have known for a long time that it was coming.
Guess I was just in denial.
But there is no ignoring or hiding from it now.
We're moving.
We will have lived in Hawaii 2 months short of 3 years.
3 years is the usually time you spend in one place in the Army.
Just long enough to get real comfortable and settled and have good friends and be involved in church...
Well, just as we thought, we are going back to Fort Leonard Wood (AKA Fort Lost-in-the-Woods) Missouri.
We are going to be there for 6 months while Stephen does his Captains Course.
After that, I have no idea.
Army life is really awesome for long term planners like me.
Don't worry, I have been practicing my deep breathing.
And eating chocolate.
Unfortunately our timing worked out bad in that the movers are coming next Thursday, the day after I get back from my friend's wedding in California.
I suddenly realized this last week and discovered I am SO not ready for the movers yet!
The way it works in the military is that they do 2 shipments.
The first shipment takes about 60 days to get from Hawaii to Missouri.
This is the big shipment.
They have allowed us 14,500 pounds.
I'm thinkin that even with all our books, that will be enough.
They will take almost everything in this shipment.
This includes all our furniture, TV and computer...and our bed.
This means we spend the next 2 months on a blow up mattress.
It's kinda like camping...for a long time.
The second shipment takes 30 days to get to Missouri and it will go about 2 weeks before we leave.
After that shipment we live out of suitcases and a borrowed blowup mattress.
Our car also is shipped 50 days before we get there.
Then we fly out November 29th with 4 animals and our suitcases.
I can tell you one thing, when we get to our house (on post) in Missouri with all our things and animals in one piece, I will breath a huge sigh of relief.
Oh and we need to rent out our house by December 1st.
So if you want to come live in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, let us know.
As you might have guessed, with all this going on the blog is going to be neglected for a while.
I will probably have many adventures to communicate when I get back.
Also my Etsy shop will be closed temporarily seeing as that my craft supplies will be on a ship in the pacific soon.
Here are a couple pictures from the madness at my house:
This is our garage.
All that stuff was stored up in the "attic" of the garage.
The good thing about moving a lot is that you sort through and toss stuff every few years.
We are pretty good at throwing stuff away.
I was considerably forlorn though when Stephen talked me into throwing away my big box of wedding magazines.
I hadn't looked at them since the wedding and probably never will.
But it is such a shame to throw away all that Martha Stewart beautifulness.
Also, in preparing for the movers I had to empty out our big freezer.
In it was a big bag of ice and so I tossed it in the grass.
Lilo started to lick it and I got the idea to turn it into a "shaved ice" treat by drizzling a little honey on it.
She really went at it at first, licking and gnawing on it but I think her tongue got numb and she gave up.
So I'll leave you with that.
Lilo licking a chunk of ice.
Ta-ta for now.
