All packed up

Once again, its been a while. I realized that all I was writing about was how much junk was in my house; however, that is pretty much my life right now - not much else going on! For the last two days we had the packers here. Four men came to my house at 10 each morning and spend most of the day just packing up my things. I spent the entire time trying to get stuff organized and trying to keep them busy. At this point, about 90% of our stuff is boxed or wrapped. We managed to find beds to sleep in tonight, but no pillows! (We got some from Brad's parents.) The men come back again tomorrow morning to finish packing, and the sea container will arrive at noon. We will also have another group with another truck taking stuff to my parents' house for storage. It will be fun to open all those packages when we come back in a couple of years!

We had a nice Easter. My parents came for the weekend and we went to Brad's aunt and uncle's house to celebrate with most of his family. Brad's uncle has a great train set-up in his attic, and Ben spent most of the afternoon admiring it, or talking about it if he was required to be downstairs. We also had a great game of Bingo (Brad's family's favorite!) and an Easter Egg hunt. It amazes me how uncompetitive my kids are about egg hunts - they run right by the brightly colored eggs, focused only on one, and really need a lot of prompting to find them all. Really its quite refreshing to see!

We are leaving in one week and the time has come to start saying goodbye to good friends. Some friends had a party for the kids and I on Monday, and it was really nice. (Thank you ladies!) I feel so ready to go live in England, yet I feel so sad about leaving here. We've found a lot of good friends over the past three years (is that all??) and we will miss them all.

I suppose I better wrap this up and get back to packing and laundry - this is my last night with my washer and dryer - I will miss them too!