WOW! What a week! We didn't get nearly as much done in Idaho as we'd hoped. We did get my dad ready for winter - mostly. We got the moving van. 26 feet is a LOT bigger than I thought it would be. We got the main storage unit empty and most of the stuff from my dad's house that we needed to take; 4 wheeler, dirt bikes, Darren's tools, the kids' bicycles and so forth. We ended up having to leave a couple of things that I'd hoped we would have room for - the air hockey table & Foosball table, to be more specific :^) No biggie - we can get them next time.
The hardest part of all was leaving my dad. The kids have been such a big part of his life, and he a huge part of theirs. I really wish he would come here, with us, but so far he says he prefers to stay in Idaho. It's going to be really difficult not being near him, especially with his health. I miss him very much, already. The kids do, too. Patrick even said he wanted to just stay in Idaho and live with "Grampa" because he knows he is going to "miss him too much"...
We left early Sunday morning. As for pets, we ended up only bringing 1 dog. The cats ran away from the my girlfriend's home and we couldn't bring the turtle and guppy in the moving van - there just wasn't room in the cab it was SOOO small. Jenny, we found out, had bone cancer and it was more painful than she (and we) could bear, so we had to put her down. It was very, very, very sad...
Darren drove the truck from Pocatello to Baker. Then he and Patrick took the car and went on to hunting camp. Emi, Aaron and I then took over the moving truck and drove the rest of the way "home". It wasn't too bad until we got past The Dalles. Then it got dark and began to rain pretty hard. By the time I got to Portland it was a torrential downpour and the traffic was so heavy! I'd have never thought the traffic would be so bad on a Sunday night. The kids and I finally made it to Salem around 9:30, went and got some dinner and called it a day.
Monday morning we began unloading the moving van into the shop. Darren's cousins helped out (thank goodness!!) and we got it empty in just a couple of hours. So, we are that much closer to making our new home. We still can't move into the house for about another week but our clothes and things are here and there is truly a light at the end of the tunnel.
The kids are all signed up for school and we have their bus information. We will all leave and get home at about the same time each day, which is really nice. I also think, for the most part, we'll even have all the same days off.
I'm really happy with the way everything is falling into place. Very clearly, God is taking care of us. I have been blessed.
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