Feeling scattered

This blog is my outlet and helps me cope with this big life change. Sometimes I am up, sometimes I am down....today, I am feeling very scattered –literally. The moving company came out to do a final quote for my husband’s company. So we walked through the house, telling this nice lady what we are taking on our air freight --500 pounds maximum, to mostly be used for everyone’s clothes, shoes, towels and sheets - and what will go in the 40 foot sea freight container. Most of our other items, like furniture, are going into storage, some of which is already in the POD container in the driveway waiting for pickup tomorrow. The rest will be piled into it when we have the storage unit redelivered, in our final weeks here. And then there are some things that are too delicate, fragile or awkward for storage, that are being scattered out to our parents. This is a very unsettling feeling –to know we are not going to have a permanent home for our “things” for a few years. When we get back, we will find a new house, collect all these items from storage and from our family and try to put our home back together, but right now, that seems way off in the future. Don’t get me wrong –these “things” are exactly that, my true home is where my husband and girls are, but it still doesn’t eliminate this feeling. I think everyone needs to feel like they have a place for their things. The other reason I am feeling scattered…I am looking at the calendar, thinking we don’t have much time left to get all of this logistically scheduled out. We will be able to take as many as three suitcases each with us, but it may take 1-2 weeks for the air freight to reach us, potentially 6-8 weeks for the sea freight. So what goes in each of these things? When do we have the movers come to pack up the rest of our things for the air freight and sea freight? When do we have the POD storage container come back out for the rest of our furniture? What do we do after all of that is gone, and our house is empty? Do we live in a hotel for a few days? We need to keep Bean in school until the day we leave, so we need to stay close. We have to reroute our mail, notify the utility companies, make sure our house is clean for the showings that will continue, and find someone to shovel our walkways if it snows. I am unbelievably overwhelmed thinking about all of this. Once we finalize a date for our flights, I will try to work backwards on getting some of this figured out, but in the meantime, it is no wonder that the bag of chocolate my mother-in-law was kind enough to bring us over the weekend, is almost empty now.