Moving Sale Madness and Miscellaneous Mentions

I have not written much this week, not because nothing was happening, but because SO MUCH was going on. I am going to try and hit the highlights here. Yesterday we sent our shipment of boxes off on the slow boat. Or as Josh says, "so our stuff can meet up with us in China." Any guesses on how many boxes we sent? Anyone? We sent 30 boxes. Now I have no idea if that is a lot or very little. I hope that I packed what will be most helpful to us, but we shall see....   Today we had day one of our massive moving sale. It was so crazy! I think of the whole time from 8-2 there were only a couple of 5 minute stretches with no people. Whew! Tonight we went through the house and found a lot more to put out tomorrow. Because with getting everything ready for our ocean shipment to leave yesterday, there was little to no time to prepare for the garage sale. I have discovered a great deal about myself and we haven't even left yet. I've realized that I have very little attachment to stuff. Well, at least most stuff - the other day as we were sorting things to go on the boat or to give away/sell, I was in tears over a stuffed bunny. I look at this bunny and remember Becca in the hospital. One of my favorite pictures of her as a newborn has the bunny in it. But the bunny is big and not a favorite of Becca's, so I am letting it go. I also realize that I handle change better than I thought (well, so far anyway). In the midst of all the packing craziness, we have also had miscellaneous doctor's appointments. Yesterday was a flurry of activity. Here's all we did: finished packing, finished labeling and itemizing each box (for insurance), took all the boxes to the freight terminal, I had a root canal, got somewhat ready for the garage sale, cleaned the house because we had a showing, and friends brought us dessert. In fact, as we described the day to a friend of ours she laughed and said , "it sounds like you're making that up!"