The First Load

We're getting the keys to our new place tomorrow morning. In anticipation, I've packed my car with the following:

• Garbage Can
• Coffee pot
• Garbage Bags
• Assorted cleaning stuff
• Towels and shower basics
• Ice Cube Tray
• Frying Pan and 1 pot
• Two boxes of StrongOpinions' fragile stuff
• One workshop shelf unit for PH's tools and stuff
• Toilet Paper and Paper Towels
• A small portable radio
• First Aid Kit
• A five foot long needlepoint my SIL made for PH on the occasion of his ordination. It is a vine with all different symbols from the Bible, from grapes and olives to cranes and bees. It's gift of love that will eventually be hung near our front door, to remind us what we are about. I want to prop it up in the living room while we do this work, to make us smile.

The other thing, of course, will be our wallets....moving is an expensive proposition! We'll spend the weekend getting supplies, removing the cheesy faux-paneling in the basement. and starting the work of sheetrocking the basement. We'll have friends from church (a couple of whom were part of our Pascagoula mission trip in February, and are now experts at this sort of stuff) helping out, plus PH's retired cousin (HeWhoOwnsAPickupTruck), clearly one of the most important helpers because of our need to get sheetrock, ceiling tiles, and other large things from HomeDepot.

Somehow, I think I'll be making lots or trips back and forth between the places, moving the little odds and ends that aren't suited to the movers' truck.

All will be well, all will be well.