Christmas Break, week 2= moving!

The week of no sleep! Rounding week 2 of Christmas Break, Richard continued to work away at the flooring in the kitchen. We just knew we had to get it finished before we had the movers bringing all our stuff in!  Casey, a friend of his from high school, came to help on a Sunday afternoon.  They finished laying the the new subfloor, and rolled out the vinyl and trimmed it appropriately.  Richard and I just had to seal the cracks between the pieces of wood and then roll and glue the vinyl floor... sounds simple, right? The movers were coming on Tuesday, and Richard was working Monday!  Late Sunday we patched all the cracks in the subfloor, and by about 1am we decided the taping and gluing of the floor would just need to wait until the next day. We were beginning to feel the pressure of the clock ticking very quickly now


Meanwhile, I was packing at the apartment, which I have relatively little experience with.  I packed all afternoon Sunday, and all day Monday until Richard got home from work.  At that point we headed over the house ready to finish that kitchen floor!  It proved to be a very challenging task-maneuvering vinyl- on that I will certainly not do again!  But by 2am, we had a floor!!! And what an accomplished feeling that was!

But still no rest for the weary- we travelled back to the apartment where we packed until around 4:30am, slept for 2 hours, and then got up to pack again!  After all, the moving company would arrive at 8am.    The rest of that morning is a blur.  TROSA, the moving company, got there on time, and we were loaded and then unloaded at our new house within 3 hours. We couldn't believe it! Luckily, Richard's friend from work, David, came to help us out with the move.  Richard directed the movers, while David and I jumped from room to room putting felt bottoms on all the big furniture so that we wouldn't scratch up our newly finished floors.

After all that excitement, Richard and I took an afternoon nap, only for a few hours, and then he headed off to work night shift around 6pm.  I stayed at the apartment to continue packing our smaller items and begin the cleaning!

The next morning was Christmas Eve, and I was picking Richard up from work at 7:30am to begin our trip to Georgia. :)

Oh, I forgot to mention, we had our first snow at our house early in the week, and it was beautiful!