This Weekend: The Big Move!

I am really looking forward to getting this weekend over with! It's going to be busy. Here's the plan:
Friday - Work, drop kids with grandparents, Pack U-Haul, drive to NYC, paint bedrooms
Saturday - Movers unload truck, un-box & organize, drive out and buy anything we still need
Sunday - More un-boxing & organizing, drive out and buy anything ELSE we still need

Monday - Any finishing touches, last minute fixes, etc., then drive back to MD to pick up the kids

Tuesday - Find stuff to do in NYC for a week before Matt starts working, yikes!

Smith Family Reunion

Well our quick trip to Anderson for the Smith Family Reunion went fantastically. We got to see lots of family we haven't seen in a while (some K&P met for the first time!) and then I zipped back to DC to work. Matt and the kiddies are hanging with Mimu and Grandpa Plomin for the rest of the week.

Unfortunately, this means Matt will miss an ultrasound for the first time ever on Friday. I would reschedule, but 2pm on a Friday was the only appointment I could get three weeks ago, so we definitely won't be able to get this very important one in before we move otherwise.

So I've got a few days to myself in the nation's capital...and I'm trying to pack like crazy. I have been researching the best ways to pack (what order, how to pack breakables, that sort of thing) and one thing that I see a lot is to pack the kids' room last. This makes sense, especially since they'll need to use their stuff - like cribs and beds - up to the day of the move.

Lots of articles advise taking special items that the kids find important for them to take in the car instead of pack. The only problem with that is that I can't think of any specific toy or stuffed animal or blanket that either one of the kids are particularly attached to. My kids are strangely without 'loveys' altogether. So I guess I'll just leave out a couple of their every day sorts of things.

Well, back to packing. Enjoy these pics from the reunion.