The joy of moving with kids

by: Scout'sWife

Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 17:17:34 PM EDT

( - promoted by DonQuixote)

Uggghhhh.....I hate moving. I've spent the last three days trying to get everything ready for the packers. I still have tomorrow to pack, but I'm really starting to stress. It wasn't this hard the last time we moved. We didn't have kids. All we had to worry about was making sure that we had our suitcases packed, and a few dishes and towels.

Scout'sWife :: The joy of moving with kids

Now I have to worry about what toys to take on the plane, and what toys to leave out to make it through the next three weeks without our household goods. Plus, all the other stuff that goes along with traveling with kids: the diapers, the wipes, the potty chair. Then I have to make sure I have medicine for anything that might happen: Tylenol, Benedryl, teething tablets, and the all important Epi-Pen (thanks to Savannah's dreaded peanut allergy). Which reminds me that I need to make sure I set aside her allergy alert bracelet. Great, now I wonder what else I'm forgetting. I guess I should put a notebook by my bed tonight so I can write down anything that I remember. Lord knows that I'll forget it all by morning again. I'll remember that I needed to pack something, but won't remember what it is.
What makes it all worse is that I know I am going to have to live through the weekend with absolutely no furniture. Thankfully, we have an air mattress to sleep on, and Dylan has the pack and play, but we have nothing for Savannah. Our poor little princess has no bed, no mattress, no nothing. Trying to find someone that has an air mattress for her, but its not looking good.
Oh man, oh man, just writing this is making me stress more. It's too late for me to do yoga, so I guess my magazine reading is going to have to be enough for me tonight. I don't want to even think about tomorrow anymore. I'll handle it, I always do. Isn't that the job of an Army wife? To make sure that her soldier's home runs smoothly.
Tomorrow is another day.

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IMHO,The United States Military would be USELESS, IMPOTENT & WEAK (0.00 / 0)

without the ALL IMPORTANT spouses who keep the home front (often another front lines battlefield) running so they can focus on their mission. They protect our nation and the spouses allow them to do so. PLEASE keep doing what you are and have been doing. Thanks.

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer

by: DonQuixote @ Sat Aug 01, 2009 at 01:03:11 AM CDT