Here's what it took to get us here:
1. 6 months as a single, full-time Mamma to our 2 and 4 year old boys with all the trials and tribs that implies. And for my husband, 6 months of living in a nasty hole all alone without the family he loves in a strange town in a new job and of missing out on his boys.
2. a 24 ft U-Haul
3. an entire sweat-filled, heat stroke inducing, 100º day filling the truck from top to bottom, front to back with all our worldly possessions and scrubbing the house until it looked better than it ever had
4. a caravan including said U-Haul being driven by the Bohemian and occupied by Lil' Spitfire, Mr. Golden Curls, and Annie cat. a Suburban driven by my brother-in-law (aka. The Machine) and occupied by his wife, 3 of his 4 kiddos, a bunch of our junk and pulling our '72 VW bus, also filled with a bunch of our junk. me driving our '68 VW bug with our dog, Maya. and my mother-in-law driving our Saturn with my niece. Whew!
5. a four hour drive turned into a 6 hour drive that went well into the wee hours of the morning
(yes this really is our temporary housing)
7. 4 hours of sweat-filled, heat stroke inducing, 100º day to unload worldly possessions into a storage unit top to bottom, front to back. (ok, I can't claim this one, it belongs solely to the Bohemian and the Machine. Women and children headed next door to the air conditioned bowling alley)
8. several more hours of driving the truck around town depositing more precious worldly possessions in safer places and returning the truck
9. more time yesterday moving the stuff from the basement of our temporary abode to the attic where the boys sleep on one end of the attic and the Bohemian and I on the other. Don't worry, it's a finished/furnished attic. We are so thankful to the Angels who own this house and share it so generously.
Wow, if you have to have temporary housing.....that is the way to have it!
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