Moving On

Our move across country was -- well, let's just say we made it. The moving truck was late getting to our house--by a day, which made us late leaving. That was BEFORE we found out that the moving company didn't believe us when we said we had a boat-load of stuff, and therefore sent a truck that couldn't hold all our things! Also, they neglected to tell us this until AFTER they had the garage packed into the truck, and BEFORE they had they house packed in at all! Long story short? The truck literally left almost everything in the house behind. Including our 6-month old pillow-top mattress! Then, we stayed another day to disperse as many of our goods as we could to our neighbors and make arrangements to store what was of value to me (like my grandmother's china, her crystal, my hutch, etc). You get the picture!

We are very grateful for our wonderful friends and neighbors--as well as for my brother who will eventually get the valuables over into his storage to be kept until next year when we can afford to ship it out. It won't be that moving company, tho. When we got our things here in Indiana, it looked like a giant had played blocks with our boxes. Virtually every box was damaged, many items broken. Boxes of books were so wet that the bottoms of the boxes were soaked. None of our books were water-damaged--I don't know how they escaped that! The semi driver said that our company had insisted they pack our items, not the driver. Too bad, as the 2 other households in the semi stayed put.

Also, because of the late-leaving, we had to really push to get to TX before that Sat, and our grandson's bd party--where we were entertaining. We made it! *whew!* We had a wonderful visit with our son and his family, and I can hardly wait to go back there for a visit as soon as possible :-)

Our Apartment is FABULOUS!!! DDs D & A picked out the perfect one for us! It feels like HOME! We have already made some friends, who are coming over for dinner this Sat. It should be fun--I'd be MORE fun if we had a couch! (yes, we left that behind too!).