I told everyone to come over around 10ish. That gave everyone some time to get up, get ready, eat breakfast and head on over. We really didn't have a lot of the large furniture apart because we slept in the bed the night before. Ben and Josh spent some time taking the bed apart. I took the wood planks off the shelves down, we cleaned out the fridge and put the food into the extra coolers, took the couch apart, took the drawers out of our dressers, the clothes out of the closets, the stuff out of the desk to put it into boxes so we could load the desk up and other miscellaneous stuff went into boxes.
It took most of the afternoon to make the trips over but luckily the trips weren't that far apart. It started raining and I was upset. Of course it would rain today while we were moving furniture. It was so nice the rest of the week and it knew to rain today because we were moving. Stupid weather! Often, I really wonder why I stay here with this crappy Washington weather. I do it for family because they will not be here forever. I am enjoying the time while they are here with us. We were still recovering from the huge loss we all suffered last summer.
On the last trip, I was so glad we were almost done, we got all the beds, the bed frames, mattresses and futon with some random things in the back of dad's trailer. We got as much stuff crammed into the Escape, mom's Expedition, Doug and Jenn's car and Erika's car. We had so much stuff between the three of us. I knew sometime when I had some extra time, Erika and I, were going to go through some of the containers in the garage and weed out some stuff we don't use anymore. We will see when that will happen though.
We unloaded everything and I just told everyone just to find a place and we will deal with it later. The couch, dining room table, chairs were taking up almost the entire space in the living room. All the paper boxes were put into one of the extra bedrooms and the bed parts got taken to the appropriate bedrooms. I told Ben we needed to get the bed put together sometime today so we could sleep in it later that night. I brought the cat over so he could get used to the house while we found something to eat. We all decided on pizza.
I took everyone to Farelli's for a late lunch/early dinner to thank them for helping us today and it was the closest pizza place near the house. We were seated at the largest booth and we ordered four pizzas, a few salads and some drinks. I told Ben and Josh I would bring them some home. They were home assembling the bed. I got the bill and I spent over $100 on pizza. Holy cow! We took it back and gave Ben and Josh some pizza. They got the bed frame up and all we had to do was put the mattress and all the bedding on it. I thanked everyone again and everyone went home to rest.
Erika, Ben and I spent some time arranging the furniture so we could walk through the house. Erika got her bed together and some of her stuff put away while Ben and I got the couch together, the table and chairs situated and some of the shelves inside the extra bedrooms. We even got the drawers inside our dressers put away. The drawers on the side of the bed were giving us trouble but with some perseverance we finally got everything to work.
I knew it would be a marathon finding a place to live, being accepted for the house, getting everything packed up, moved, asking for help from friends and family members and finding time to do all of this but we managed to do all of this in a month. I was exhausted every night and could not wait for it to be done. Now, we put stuff away and go through it as we do. It will take a few months but it will eventually get done. I hope the next time we move it will be into our own place.
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