Jan 15 2008
Movin’ In
After a few more weeks of construction our lovely home was completed and we were anxious to move in. Our Montgomery house was rented and the people who had rented it were in a hurry to move and get settled. We are the type of people who do things ourselves and moving is one of them. We rented a truck and asked our son-in-law to help and also hired a guy to help with the heavy lifting. It was a very hard day. Half way through it I got a call from my boss that there was a really important document that had to be completed. I was really feeling the stress at that point. There were things that hadn’t been packed yet and things that had to be moved while we had the truck. After moving for a whole day, I went to my office and worked on the document that was pending. I went back to the Montgomery house and separated the things that were going to be sold at a “Moving Sale” my husband had advertised for the next morning in a local advertisement magazine. I tagged and set out and worked all night long. At about 5:30 in the morning I had to lie down. I was trembling with fatigue and aching from head to toe. An hour later people were ringing our doorbell wanting to see what we had for sale. It was pouring down rain and freezing cold, but they came all day long. They bought everything we had left in the house. They even bought the TV trays I had kept at the house to use while the sale was going on. The bad part about it was we were both so tired we were letting people talk us down on our prices. I’m sure they felt like they were getting bargains, but after I had slept I realized I had practically given away most of the items and did give away some bathroom rugs and shower curtains that were hardly used.
When we drove to the new house that evening we were so exhausted we could hardly walk from the car to the house. We had been up for about 36 hours without sleep and with very little food. The new house was a disaster area! There were boxes and stuff piled everywhere. I was hoping to sleep for awhile and then get to work putting things in order in my new home. My husband and I put our bed together, I searched through boxes and found some sheets and made up the bed. It was very late, but my husband said, “let’s try out the bathtub.” We filled it up and poured in some bubble bath. When we turned on the jets we quickly realized we didn’t need so much bubble bath. The bubbles were thick and dense and coming over the top of the tub. We couldn’t even see each other! We were so tired and the warmth of the bath made us giddy. We couldn’t stop laughing! When we calmed down and I had stretched out in the warm sudsy water I was falling asleep in the bathtub. So we got out and we had just lain down in bed for about 30 minutes when the phone rang. I’m not kidding. It was my sister from Pennsylvania calling to check on us. We were so awake after sleeping for just 30 minutes that we got up and made ourselves some scrambled eggs and toast. After we finished eating we were ready to go back to sleep. It was our first night in our new home. It’s really still a blur.
