One month to go! Today was a super intense day and I absolutely loved it. I’ve been noodling around a number of ideas that I wanted to “blog” about the past few weeks but I am, frankly, tired of writing about my feelings. Let’s just say the past few weeks have been really fucking hard. Emotionally and physically. Packing sucks. Watching your kids get sad because you’re packing up their stuff is even harder. But let’s move on.

Today the container arrived. Oh the container; what a journey this thing has been. I’m sure some of you have seen the articles about the scarcity and/or the cost of containers. When I put together our budget with real hard numbers 18 months ago a container was reasonably priced. It’s gone up a wee bit more since then. The gap in prices makes trading usd/ars look like a walk in the park! It caused me to go back to the beginning and start looking at how we wanted to store and move the contents of our house. Going through this process again was a PITA and knowing that we only had a few weeks until the tenets moved in to our house didn’t help things. As you can see from the picture we still went ahead with purchasing the container. It’s simply the right thing for us as it gives us the most flexibility and optionality. We have no idea where we’re going to end up, or when we’re gonna stop. Having a container with our contents in it where we can say “ship that, there” really makes things easy. So now we own a fucking container. I suspect the bid for it is a bit lower since we’ve taken delivery…

Anyway, back to today. Today was a Big Day. Lots of Big Stuff happened. Oodles of stuff was taken from the house and loaded into the garage so we can easily move it to the container over the next few days. All big items and boxes are now packed and in the garage. With so much going on and needing to be done I barely had time to get emotional and nostalgic. Tears were few and excitement was high. It’s fun to get excited again! It’s been in short supply recently.

Not only did the container show up but Oliver completed his first sleep over. This was truly wonderful and he had such a great time with his buddy Kate. I’m so glad that he was able to have a proper sleep over before we become Boat People and we look forward to reciprocating and hosting Kate for a sleep over soon. We were also able to sign Oliver up for an additional 2 weeks of sailing lessons that start on Monday. So I guess that means we’re officially done with virtual school…2 weeks early. Melissa covered how we feel about the boys and school. It’s a big bummer but I’m trying to look forward here. Oliver had a fantastic teacher and we’re so thankful for that. But virtual school sucks. Sailing lessons are fun. The decision was easy and I’m thrilled he’s gonna get a month of Opti sailing before we’re out of here.