After 10 years stationed in Norfolk, VA we are finally headed to another base. We are waiting on hard copies of our orders so I don't want to jinx us by telling the entire interwebz where we are going just yet but I feel confident enough to say we are leaving Hampton Roads in a just a couple of short months.
The reality hasn't hit yet. I am feeling extremely overwhelmed and stressed and anxious all at once. I realized Friday that we have lived here longer than I lived in Louisville - yet I still call Louisville home. In fact, we have lived here longer than I have lived anywhere else in my life.
I am going to attempt to properly document our adventure via this blog, Twitter, and Instagram but I am horrible at all of those things so no promises :)
Here is a sneak peak of how I started this weekend - overwhelmed by the prospect of purging all of the excess crap we have accumulated over the years and trying to figure out what we need to do.
I took forever to fall asleep Friday night, then Saturday morning I woke up a full hour before anyone else in the house. I laid in bed for over 45 minutes then my bladder won and I rolled out of bed to get a start on the day. We had work to do after all. I needed all of the healthy things and caffeine to motivate me.
After taking my vitamins and downing a Spark I snuck downstairs for a few minutes of quiet time before the baby (ok he's over 1.5 but he's still MY baby) woke up and wanted breakfast. After I made breakfast for Little Dude Adam and I put together a basic gameplan for what we think we need to do. I'm sure we will find out this week once we get hard copy orders and talk to the Navy movers etc. that we are doing it all wrong but at least I feel better having a checklist to work from until we are told otherwise.
Saturday afternoon we went through our living room and cleared out all of Little Dudes toys and books, our DVD's and other entertainment type stuff, knick knacks, junk that had accumulated in the coat closet and other miscellaneous junk and took our first load of donations to the thrift store.
Sunday morning I once again woke up before everyone else. My anxiety was much more in check but I still felt the overwhelming need to get busy. So much to do and so little time! I took care of our regular weekend kitchen cleaning while I waited on Adam and Little Dude to wake up and went out to our storage shed to get pictures of my bike and a garden tiller that we knew we weren't taking with us and posted them for sale on Facebook marketplace (both sold today by the way!) Once Adam and Little Dude were up we made breakfast then our favorite baby sitter Miss F came to help with Little Dude for the day.
Little Dude loves Miss F so much, he might love her more than he does me! When she left he just stood at the front door crying for a few minutes then had to have cuddles to calm down.
Adam and I spent the day in our bedroom pulling out all of our clothes and starting to purge the items we won't need/don't want etc. In addition to moving to a different local since I have already spent over a year working remotely thanks to COVID we believe I will be able to keep my job and work from our new location (My boss has given his OK but he is getting approval from the powers above him) which means my more casual wardrobe will be more permanent so I was able to get rid of easily 1/2 of my closet. In the end we took another 5 bags of clothes to the Thrift Store Sunday evening when we were done.
This week should be my last super hellish - why did I decide to become an accountant weeks of the "busy" season. I may have left public accounting but any accountant who works for a large company and tells you they don't have a "busy season" is lying. Some businesses it's a couple of weeks quarterly others it's a couple of months annually but everyone has it.
I'm hoping I'll be able to get through a few things in Little Dudes room this week and finish up the loose ends in our room but with wrapping up things for work I'm not sure if that is really going to happen.
Next weekend we want to be able to do the minor household repairs that need to be made before we list our house for sale. Specifically we need to paint some trim work, put mulch in the flower beds, and paint the master bathroom. I would also really like it if we could get our bedroom 100% finished/purged and get Little Dudes room done but I may be a little overzealous in that goal.
Wish me luck!
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