I didn’t think it was possible, but this week was absolutely worse than last week. The ol’ insomnia has kicked in. I’ve been averaging five to six hours sleep a night, generally eyes popping open around four or five am, unable to calm the mind back into a peaceful slumber. We are in the vortex, […]
This has been a week of wild emotions. With less than three weeks to go, we have reached the ‘panic’ and high stress stage of the journey. Every day seems grueling and there are too many tasks to possibly be accomplished. Interspersed throughout are lots of social activities as we continue to meet up and […]
From the time we started talking about this move about a year and a half ago, the word faith has entered and remained a key concept in my vocabulary. This has been an incredible year of change for me; changes in ways that I’ve not been accustomed to. I’ve always been a person who’s made […]
The pieces are starting to fall into place. We’ve agreed upon the freight company and picked the dates we want to pack and load the container (February 21 & 22) and we’ve picked our fly-out date: February 28th. This all finally gelled when our dear friend Daniel decided when and where he wants to go […]
I have spent approximately nine hours in the last two days going through my closet and file cabinet of papers and books. I have so many papers: school papers ranging from my junior college financial aid receipts to my undergrad class papers and school books to my masters program notebooks & school papers.