On Your Marks.....

The moving race is just around the corner, and it's almost GO time. This weekend was spent, among other things, prepping for the big day. I tried to pull together some of those things that I don't want them to pack. Lucas' parents came up to help out with some of the heavy lifting and so forth (and laundry... LOTS of laundry). All the curtains are down. All the shelves are off the walls. And the shed is disassembled and ready to go (which means the shed contents are crammed in one half of our garage. It feels weird to be living like this. It looks weird - so empty and impersonal. Soon this will be someone else's house, and not ours. Weird.

Meagan is SUPER crabby. Whining about almost EVERYTHING. She is just not herself.

And Isaac is a bit off too. He is snappy and sharp with his tongue... just touchy.

I can tell the activities and the prep - everything leading up to the impending move - are really wearing on them. It's hitting home for them. They are feeling like they have no control, and so they are trying to take control of whatever they can - which is not much - and it is leaving them lashing out in desperate attempts. Sad really. Hard to parent through. There's a fine line between letting it go and correcting it in situations like this.

At any rate, the move is coming, like it or not (although I confess that for the most part I am rather excited). Tomorrow is the last day I have to get prepared before the movers come on Tuesday with all their boxes and supplies to start tearing apart our cozy little world and shoving it in a truck.

I'll keep you posted.

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