Blah blah blah...moving stuff...blah blah

I am so tired. Between going through all of our stuff and giving/throwing things away, now packing and cleaning and having seemingly endless playdates and playgroups (so Alex can spend as much time as possible with his friends before he moves) I am just completely beat.

The good news is things are getting done.  Lots of our stuff are finding new homes with our family and friends, it seems every day someone leaves with a truckload of stuff.  Strangely, we still have so much left!  I packed up half the kitchen today,  I'll finish tomorrow and maybe start packing up the playroom as well. 

I've reserved the moving truck and hotel rooms for the trip.  We lucked out that a buddy of John's is able to come with us to help us move.  My mother is also driving down with us to help watch the boys for a couple of days until we get settled.  We'll all leave Monday morning, John and Josh will drive the truck all day and stay in Beaverton the night before we can get the keys to the apartment.  Tuesday morning they can start moving the stuff in.  My mom, the boys, the dog, cat and I are going to drive to La Grande and stay there Monday night and drive the rest of the way to Beaverton on Tuesday, arriving sometime in the afternoon.  Mom will watch the boys while I help the guys unload the truck, then we do some creative sleeping arrangements to make 6 people fit comfortably in a 2 bedroom apartment full of unpacked boxes for the night, Josh flies home Wednesday, my mom flies home Thursday.

Alex's birthday party is tomorrow afternoon. This is his first kid party, and he is SO EXCITED! I hope it goes well.  There will be 8 little kids, plus Alex and Max. We reserved a room at a local place that has playground equipment and a big bounce house indoors (I didn't want to have to worry about weather), we'll have pizza and cupcakes and the kids can play like maniacs for two hours. I've asked everyone to please NOT bring gifts because we're already having to give away a lot of his toys before the move.  I'm hoping he'll have so much fun playing and eating cake that he will forget that there are no presents.  I did make up some goodie bags for all the kids with some little toys and he'll have a special birthday boy hat.  I'm betting he won't even notice the lack of presents.

While we're out partying tomorrow, our realtor is having an agent tour come through our house. Just some of his collegues, to get feedback and have our home fresh on their minds if they have any potential buyers.  Our house had quite a bit of interest the first week on the market, but it seems no one is too interested this week.  Actually that's been good because we've had the house a mess with packing and going through stuff. I'm not as worried as maybe I should be about selling the house.  It's a nice house in a great area.  SOMEONE will want to buy it.  I'm sure of it. It actually makes our lives easier if no one wants to see it until we've moved out of it. I'm betting our realtor will want to do a price reduction next week and that should get people interested in seeing it again.  This is the one thing that is completely out of my control, so I'm trying to be all zen about it and just stay calm.  Focus on the things I can control and let whatever is going to happen with the house happen.  I've got plenty of other things to worry about right now.