So, we are all packed up and ready to go! It has been an extremely stressful and overwhelming week but as corny as it sounds I'm impressed with how well we've been able to just push through it!! I haven't had a whole lot of time to just sit down and think about what it is we are doing until today. Today was the first day in a while that we both weren't running around like crazy people trying to get things done and it made me stop and remember what this is all about. ...Matt is being deployed!! I'm sad today because I have to leave my husband and Gavin has to leave his daddy. I know that Matt doesn't have a very dangerous job but that doesn't stop the fear or the tears. You try to tell yourself that it's in Gods hands, and it is, but "what if" is always somewhere in the back of your brain. I am sad to day because I have to uproot my child for the 4th time in 7 months. I don't care what other people say, it does effect him. Just because he is two does not mean that he isn't confused by all the changes around him. I've seen it in these past months. I'm sad because the friends I've made here will all be gone when we get back and it's going to be like starting all over! I will put on my strong face tomorrow but today I am sad.
The plan is to go to the airport in the morning (Wednesday evening for you all) and wait and see if they call our name. They have 67 seats but we don't know where we are on the list. I don't think it will be a problem. The plane leaves at 11:00am Thursday morning and lands in Seattle around 7:00am Thursday. Nothing like living the same day twice! For us that we be 11:00pm so the plan is for Tak to pick us up and take us back to his house to sleep a little. Gavin and I will buy a ticket home when we land in Seattle so I don't know the details of that but I do know that we will be home sometime Friday. I know that everyone will be excited to see us and want to see Gavin but please keep in mind that it will take us a few days to adjust to the time difference and we will probably be sleeping during the day and watching movies and eating breakfast in the middle of the night. Bare with me! We will see you all soon!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Plan? What's a plan?
Most of you know, I'm a planner! I have to know what is going on when, where, how, who.... that's me. So Wednesday morning I wake up with plans to go to the doctor and find out the sex of the baby and then the guys were going to come by to pick up our refrigerator and washer because we were moving THE NEXT DAY! Well, this is how my day really went. At 7:30 a guy from the moving company shows up and wants to do a survey of our house to make sure they have everything they need when the come the next day. At 8:30 the guys came and picked up the washer and refrigerator. This was wonderful because that meant that Matt gets to go with me to get my ultrasound. Well, that didn't go as planned because this little bean didn't want us to know what it's goodies look like!! I was very disappointed!!! I found out that Gavin was a boy at 14 weeks. I'm 22 weeks now and I already feel like I've waited a lifetime!!! Oh well, nothing I can do so I move on. I come home and Matt goes back to work. I get a phone call at 12:30 from the moving company and she wants to know if they can come this afternoon and do a per pack. Here is where my planning comes in. I was planning on having EVERYTHING that Gavin and I will need to take with us packed up and in our car out of the way. I was also planning on gathering up everything that needs to stay, to clean the apartment once they are gone. I had some dishes that needed to be washed and a few other "odd and in's " to do before the movers came the next day. So, I agree to let them come at 3:00. This way I have time to get my stuff done. At 1:00 (30 mins later) my door bell ring and it's the movers. I say "oh, you're early. Please excuse the mess". He smiles and ask me if they can start packing. I say yes go ahead. Then he says "we, move everything today". Whoa, back up! You want to move everything TODAY?? Again I get his sweet like Japanese smile and he just says "please". So, everything that I had planned to do that evening then changed to getting it done before 3:00 is now all shot to hell.
The next thing I know I have little men coming in my house from the front door and men climbing over the balcony from the roof of the truck! I'm completely overwhelmed!! So, I take a deep breath and start throwing stuff in a little area I've ask them to leave alone. I realize after about 10 minutes that this is just not going to work because I have way to much to think about! So, I start call Matt and hear his phone ringing in the living room...just like him to not have his phone. I called what I thought was his work number only to be told that I have the wrong number! Then I call Shelly, her husband works with Matt so I got the number from her. I call Matt's work and DEMAND that he stop whatever he is doing that very minute and get his butt home. Thank God he actually listened. I just knew it was going to take him an hour. By the time Matt got home I was busy trying to keep Gavin out of everyones way and out of all their stuff. I decide that Gavin and I have got to just get out of the way. I grab the little 15'' TV and some movie and off we go to the new house. I didn't remember sippy cups, snacks or anything that you need to get by with a toddler. The floor in our new house is cold tile and we have nothing to sit on. Then Gavin realizes that there are stairs in the new house! So, up and down and up and down until I thought my legs were going to fall off! He has no problem getting up the stairs it's the down part that he needs help with. I've been having a lot of back pain for the past month or so and this just put me over the edge. It has not been as bad as when I was pregnant with Gavin but still not fun. When Matt showed up with the movers I was already at my wits end with Gavin and my back hurts so bad I can hardly walk. It's 5:00 and Gavin has not had a nap at all so he is in complete melt down mode! So, we get in the car and go out to find some dinner. I'll stop here with all the details because I think you get it. The movers didn't leave until around 6:30 and then we had to unpack our bedding and things we needed ASAP. Not easy to do when half the boxes are labeled in JAPANESE! I've spent the past few days unpacking, which I was not planning on doing! But I have to finish packing our suitcases for our 6 month stay in Bama. I've had to do most of it myself because Matt has been busy trying to get everything in order for us to leave and he cleaned the apartment before we turn in the keys. I do not remember moving in 5 months ago being so painful!!! I HATE STAIRS!
On a lighter note, I love our new house now that everything is unpacked. We were both a little unsure if we'd like it here but did it for Gavin and the yard. Our back yard is a toddlers dream. There are about 6 kids all around his age and every house has some kind of big outside toy to play on. Tonight (Friday) I looked out my back window and there seemed to be some kind of party going on. Matt and I decided to go out and introduce ourselves. Gavin had so much fun running around with all the little kiddos and we had a good time meeting everyone. I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and I just thought "we should have been here all along".
Sorry, I know that this was a blog of me just rambling on and on.
The next thing I know I have little men coming in my house from the front door and men climbing over the balcony from the roof of the truck! I'm completely overwhelmed!! So, I take a deep breath and start throwing stuff in a little area I've ask them to leave alone. I realize after about 10 minutes that this is just not going to work because I have way to much to think about! So, I start call Matt and hear his phone ringing in the living room...just like him to not have his phone. I called what I thought was his work number only to be told that I have the wrong number! Then I call Shelly, her husband works with Matt so I got the number from her. I call Matt's work and DEMAND that he stop whatever he is doing that very minute and get his butt home. Thank God he actually listened. I just knew it was going to take him an hour. By the time Matt got home I was busy trying to keep Gavin out of everyones way and out of all their stuff. I decide that Gavin and I have got to just get out of the way. I grab the little 15'' TV and some movie and off we go to the new house. I didn't remember sippy cups, snacks or anything that you need to get by with a toddler. The floor in our new house is cold tile and we have nothing to sit on. Then Gavin realizes that there are stairs in the new house! So, up and down and up and down until I thought my legs were going to fall off! He has no problem getting up the stairs it's the down part that he needs help with. I've been having a lot of back pain for the past month or so and this just put me over the edge. It has not been as bad as when I was pregnant with Gavin but still not fun. When Matt showed up with the movers I was already at my wits end with Gavin and my back hurts so bad I can hardly walk. It's 5:00 and Gavin has not had a nap at all so he is in complete melt down mode! So, we get in the car and go out to find some dinner. I'll stop here with all the details because I think you get it. The movers didn't leave until around 6:30 and then we had to unpack our bedding and things we needed ASAP. Not easy to do when half the boxes are labeled in JAPANESE! I've spent the past few days unpacking, which I was not planning on doing! But I have to finish packing our suitcases for our 6 month stay in Bama. I've had to do most of it myself because Matt has been busy trying to get everything in order for us to leave and he cleaned the apartment before we turn in the keys. I do not remember moving in 5 months ago being so painful!!! I HATE STAIRS!
On a lighter note, I love our new house now that everything is unpacked. We were both a little unsure if we'd like it here but did it for Gavin and the yard. Our back yard is a toddlers dream. There are about 6 kids all around his age and every house has some kind of big outside toy to play on. Tonight (Friday) I looked out my back window and there seemed to be some kind of party going on. Matt and I decided to go out and introduce ourselves. Gavin had so much fun running around with all the little kiddos and we had a good time meeting everyone. I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and I just thought "we should have been here all along".
Sorry, I know that this was a blog of me just rambling on and on.
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