loading and unloading

loading and unloading June 23, 2009


The loading part wasn't hard at all...for me, that is. The poor guys that were loading the truck had to move all our stuff on one of the hottest days in Winston! I did keep them hydrated though, or at least I tried! They started around 8:30 Friday morning and two houses later (they made a trip to "In-Laws-Storage" to pick up more stuff) they finished around 4 pm. Would you believe we had that much to load? Sheesh.

Josh and I watched the gigantic truck pull away...I said a little prayer as it rolled up Linda and Joseph's driveway: "Please let our stuff make it to Florida on time (Tuesday am) and without any damage!"

We drove down Sunday morning around 9:00 with the car loaded down with stuff we weren't allowed to pack in the truck and Grant, of course. The poor guy only had half a seat to lie down upon, but did he complain once? Nope...just slept like a baby, the whole ten hour drive! I, on the other hand, did not...it was a pretty long drive and somewhat uncomfortable with this ever-growing belly of mine.

About 7:00 Sunday night we arrived to our new home in St. Pete...finally. We turned the keys and walked into a very hollow feeling house. Grant was excited, as he always enjoys exploring new places. I was a little less excited when I saw the air matress I would be sleeping upon the next two nights.

Monday morning I decided we should take advantage of the empty house and paint the nursery! So we headed off to Lowe's and bought paint (VOC free, thanks to Kelly's advice) and a few other supplies we thought we'd need for the move. We spent a lot of the afternoon painting but didn't finish like I wanted too, oh well!

So Tuesday am finally comes and we get the call from the movers letting us know they had made it! Whew. What a relief. They came to the door and surveyed the place. I knew it was a bad sign when one of them said, "hmm, these stairs look narrow". Uh-oh.

The poor guys were again stuck in a major heat wave..it was 98 degrees that day by 9:30 in the morning...what a tough job! They seriously earned their pay that day!

We had a few bobbles with the move in--our headboard for our bed (designed and built by Josh and Joseph) proved to be the most frustrated of them all. First off, it could be called Beauty and the Beast--it's gorgeous but a nightmare to move. It probably weighs several hundred pounds and is as tall as I am. The guys just barely got it up the first flight of stairs (with Josh's help) and managed to chip a piece off of one of the feet. NOT GOOD. After they assessed the second stair case, they realized that it just wasn't going to make it up. This house was designed for people with "take-apart-able" furniture...

So now the headboard is sitting against the wall in Josh's office/guestroom. It looks really great there--totally looks like it belongs (NOT!!). Grrrr. We're sleeping on our matress on the floor because without the headboard we can't put the rails on--but at least it's a real matress and not the Aerobed!

The movers boogered up the walls in almost every room, but I guess that's to be expected and it's nothing a little paint won't fix.

So, all in all it wasn't horrible--we just don't have nearly enough storage space for everything. It's amazing how much space we actually had in Wilmington. What a difference a couple of closets and an attic makes! We probably should have left way more in Winston but we didn't want to overload Linda and Joseph with more stuff--since half my classroom is currently being stored there! Thanks "MOM and DAD" :)

Next step: UNPACKING! Lord help me!