Finally starting to take packing seriously.

Today I packed up everything from the dining room and living room that we want to get rid of and that we don’t need in the interim. WHY do we collect so much stuff? I’m at a dilemma as to how to get rid of all the stuff! Yard sales are unheard of here. Bryon suggested taking it to church and letting people just take it. Fine and dandy, but I don’t want to be visiting all these churches just so that we can set up a table of stuff to get rid of – how embarrassing!!

I am so grateful to be finally getting on this. There’s so much to do, I just haven’t taken the time to do it. As it looks, we’re not going back as light as we had originally planned – good thing for everyone who has volunteered to take stuff back for us!! As it is, I don’t think we’re going to make it. Costa Rica is a dream of ours, but it’s hard to travel through with all this stuff. Do we really need all of it? Even with sending all our books back via mail we don’t have enough space.

One thing I am glad of, is that the girls aren’t in school. Even though it would be a lot easier to get rid of stuff they value if they were in school, I can’t imagine having to teach them English in the afternoons. Since packing and sorting is physical, it’s easier to do when I’m tired, rather than trying to teach and keep my patience when I’m tired.

Today Bryon and I sorted through our cd’s to get rid of those that we don’t want anymore. 9 made it out of our 2 cd cases. Only 9!! And 4 were in sets!! We listen to probably 10% or less of those cd’s, Bryon less than I. Yet we’re taking them back with us…oh well (sigh).

53 days to go until we leave for Costa Rica. Somehow that’s not scary yet. Still seems like a lot of time. But probably in 2 weeks I’ll be wondering why I didn’t take more advantage of my time now to get more done! But then I think back to the last time we moved, when I packed up and wrapped all the furniture in 14 days. So technically I could wait 5 weeks then start…and my family would kill me!