Moving...finally

Moving back to Virginia. I’ve been wanting to do this for years and the time has finally come. We are moving in a 31’ RV, downsizing from a 1400 sq ft house. We started the sorting and packing around March. I was still working full time and trying to sort through nearly 28 years of “stuff”, deciding what things I absolutely cannot live without (like my great-grandmother’s china) and what can be sold or given away. So, the most logical place to start of course is with my children’s boxes. What mother has not saved every little picture your child drew even before Kindergarten? And I had four children, so needless to say, the sorting took weeks and grew into months. I packed the children’s “stuff” in boxes to mail to them first, then my favorites, then finally the necessities. Let’s not forget Mike’s books. We had over 1,000 books to go through and pick out the ones that we couldn’t live without. These were not small novels, these were anything from text books to gardening to health and healing...big, heavy books! But over several more weeks we managed to pull our favorites and packed for shipping (media mail). Then the garages sales, selling all the rest of our things that we could live without or was too heavy to carry. After another several months, and the help of some very special friends (thank you Linda, Alice and Murray), we were finally on the road on September 17^th. And so the journey begins...