Well, moving day is fast approaching. We get the keys today, and will start moving the boxes in. We have been fortunate in that my father, mother-in-law and a member of our church congregation are willing to help us out with all of this.
My dad came over last night with the van. It is amazing just how much stuff can be packed into what is so ironically called a mini-van. Dad was able to get almost all of the boxes into it. He took out the rear seats at home, and just started jamming them in. Several times, I thought he was done. Nope, each time we came back up and got a few more boxes.
By the time the movers get here on Saturday, there won't be too much left to move. Which was the idea of course. The plan is to have them only hauling the heavy furniture. It is too expensive to have them moving boxes and bags that we can take ourselves over the course of the week.
It is convenient that our apartment is in the basement and faces the street. We will be able to unload the boxes from the van and just pass them through the dining area window, stacking them against the back wall. At least the new apartment has the space for all of this stuff without having to trip over it. Our current home is so small, we were having to go outside just to change our minds.
The pension people are ready to give us the full allowance for the move. We just have to keep all of the receipts. If we don't use the whole benefit, I was told to buy all of those little necessities for the apartment to pad out the bill. I guess it's the government way of keeping the paperwork simple. It beats paying for it all now and then waiting on them to reimburse us.
I'm so excited, I got up almost two hours early this morning. Now I'm just going to wait on the coffee, and relax before my mother-in-law gets here.
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