Oh yeah, that. Remember back in July when I was cleaning out the garage of 15 years of “stuff”? These last 2 days we realized that we forgot something…the inside of the house 😱😳. What we thought was going to be a simple “pack up and go” turned into another nightmare of stuff. We completely spaced the closets. And drawers. And nooks. And crannies. OMG. We left the house at 1am Wednesday night, physically exhausted. Were back at it at 5:30am yesterday. We finally finished around 8:30 last night. Holy hell, how did we forget the inside of the house? Easy. Out of sight, out of mind. I post this as a warning to anyone attempting a move of this magnitude, downsizing means reviewing the *entire house* and literally going room by room taking inventory of everything. That said, here we are! Move-eve! We are mentally and physically exhausted, thrilled, happy, sore, and excited! I told Andy if we don’t either end up divorced or dead after the stress of the last 2 months, we’re probably good for just about anything handed to us. What a roller coaster this has been. But the time is nigh! In 26 hours we’ll be on a plane to our new home. Today we got to sleep in a bit and rest our minds and backs. Andy is headed over to the airport now to pick up our minivan which we will load with our 3 big boxes (no more than 50 pounds each, gotta follow those airline regs, lol), the big suitcase, 2 cats, ourselves, and head to Atlanta. I’m thankful for the Feliway spray, hopefully the cats will not be über stressed on the 4 hour journey. Onward and upward!
St. Maarten Move 
OMGosh! We are currently doing the first culling of our stuff and I cannot imagine having to do the cabinets and closets in less than 2 months! It will take us a couple of rounds to get it all out of here. But, then, we have a big house with TOO MUCH storage–TOO well used! You must be exhausted!! (I hope you remembered to vote your absentee ballot!)
Safe travels to all 4 of you. Enjoy the rest and I hope your flight is calm and quiet.
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No way we’d leave NC without voting!! Exhausted is one adjective, in our case, it’s the understatement of the century 😱. The light at the end of the tunnel is shining a little brighter, though. By the way, we did the entire house, cabinets, closets, etc., in about 36 hours 😳. Yes, it sucked BAD!
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I am SO HAPPY that you got your votes in! I’ve been reminding people coming to SXM in November to be sure to vote. Your kitties look settled, they’ll love their underseat / seats! ‘Hope you have a nice smooth flight with not upset kitty tummies. Our MR Smokey does get a little airsick, but he is discrete and sweet as he “suffers!” SAFE travels, you know how everything is OK once that island is in sight!
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Oh yes. I’m always happy when the plane makes that left turn to line up for approach, I know I’m almost “home” then. Now, it will actually be home 😊
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I know EXACTLY how you feel. Love it all!!
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