Thursday, September 6, 2012

The Overwhelming Process of Moving.

It's that time again. Moving time. While I understand that this is a process that I will probably become a pro at by the end of my husband's military career, right now it's a daunting task that I'm not looking forward to. Perhaps it's because I'm a full time student and 7 months pregnant.  Or perhaps it's because we're moving to South Korea and I have no clue what we can/should bring and what we should leave behind.

In any case I am finding this task a bit overwhelming. When we moved to Fort Rucker, we only had 4 days to pack up our house and move. This was mainly because we had already scheduled and paid for a vacation not realizing the Army would require my husband to report so soon after he commissioned.  Now the Army would have moved us, but we had heard that you can make a good amount of money doing a DITY (Do-It-Yourself) move and we wanted to make some money. And we did. It was a stressful time, but thanks to a lot people who helped us out, we made it through and we were so grateful that we did it. 

However, this time around a DITY move isn't going to work for us for several reasons. One of the biggest is the whole moving to another country thing. The next is that by the time we move, I will be VERY pregnant. So that puts me back to where I was when I started this post. Overwhelmed. 

Here is what I need to accomplish in the next couple months. Organize our house so I know what we actually own and what we will actually want to take with us to Korea. Unlike our last move when weight equaled money, this time around we are only allotted half of the maximum weight my husband's rank is allowed to move. One half.  Not to mention almost all Korean housing is fully furnished, so we really don't need to bring much with us. It would be so much easier if I could have them pack up our whole house and move it, but  we have to figure out what is going to go into storage, what we're going to take with us and what we're going to give away, sell and throw out. 

Also, this task might not be as overwhelming if the hubs and I were naturally neat freaks and our house was already nicely organized into bins and labeled. Nope! Our spare bedroom could probably make it onto the show "Hoarders".  As well as I've been the same size since I was in 7th grade and have so many articles of clothing it's embarrassing. (Also now I have maternity clothes and clothes people have given me for little baby G).  Add on to that the fact that we got married older, so when we combined lives...we had a lot to combine. We've only been married two years, so we still have a lot of "his stuff"/"her stuff" that makes it hard to organize. My husband and I need a good week where we both have nothing to do, but instead he's putting in 12 hour days and I feel the need to sleep 12 hours a day, and the remaining 12 I'm trying to finish all of my school work early since we will be moving before the semester ends and my teachers are being nice enough to work with me so that I can finally graduate by the end of the semester. 

Somewhere in the midst of all this, I'll have a baby.

 Funny how that is literally the least of my concerns. I figure this little girl is gonna come no matter if my school work gets finished, or hubs graduates flight school, the dishes get done or boxes get organized, so I'm leaving the "having the baby" part alone. 

Sooooo, how to get started. My sweet best friend of a cousin finally convinced me to join Pinterest. She said it was a good way to look up stuff for the baby. And she was right. Now I feel like I'm not neglecting this little girl, she has her own board on Pinterest. After I artistically decorated her room, organized her belongings, and made notes of all the stuff I feel the need to buy now, I turned my attention back to the elephant in the room. Moving and organizing. I found a pin--which lead me to a blog--that had a list entitled "40 bags in 40 days".  I didn't read the whole blog, but I liked the idea. 

Here is Lucy's list. 

http://www.littlelucylu.com/2011/03/40-bags-continued.html?showComment=1346959002635#c6178276555275685739


I'll be making my own as I adapt her list to my house and my needs, but I figure I have about 40 days to get my house in order. But I like the idea of just doing one thing a day. I can handle that with all my homework, pregnancy exhaustion and pinterest obsession. ;) Moving, I think we just found a way to get along. 

Please feel free to post a comment on what works for you and moving!