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It looks like we’re moving to California!  We’ve been working on figuring out what to do job-wise when the school year ends for a while now, and last week Colin’s parents asked him to work at their print shop in MIll Valley, CA.  They also generously offered to let us live with them for a few months while we adjust (cost of living is seriously something to adjust to there), and this week we decided to take them up on their offer.

The plan is to move the first week of June.  I’ve got a truck lined up and we’ll load it up the Friday/Saturday of Colin’s last week of work, then we’ll have them drive away.  ABF U-Pack still seems like the safest and most economical way to go, and we had a great experience with them on our trip out here, so they’re our moving company again. This is all happening really fast and I’ve hardly had a chance to catch my breath, but it’s pretty exciting!

Moving will be a challenge, especially since we’ve only got a month to prepare.  Luckily (or not), most of our stuff is still packed up in boxes, and I’ve saved most of our empty boxes from the last move in our “storage room,” so this move shouldn’t take nearly as long to pack for as our last one.  Since most of our stuff will be in storage for a long time, I’m negotiating with Colin over giving away/throwing away a lot of our stuff.  I like to de-clutter and Colin is a bit more of a pack-rat who can’t think of why we’d get rid of anything we might ever want to use again.   I only want to store anything I’ll miss six months later.  So we’ll see how it goes.  We pay the trucking company by the linear foot of space on the truck, so Colin is more open to chucking than normal.  We’re definitely sending some toys to Goodwill, so if any of my local friends are interested in some toys let me know and I’ll give you first dibs.

Speaking of local friends, we are going to miss you!  I had to email my bishopric and tell them I’m moving and they’ll have to find a new Primary president and I felt odd about that.  I can’t stand the idea of leaving my one counselor who isn’t currently in the hospital to run the Primary alone.  She’s a very capable, industrious, willing woman, but doing it all by myself would be a nightmare.  Luckily we’ve got lots of awesome adults in our Primary to help out until the presidency is reorganized–my secretary, the music director, the pianist, and all the teachers.  I’m already sad to miss all the things we’ve been planning and all the kids…Too sad, I’m not going to talk about that more right now.

I’m really grateful to have a good relationship with my in-laws.  Colin’s parents are great people and we get along well, and I’m always so happy to have to opt-out on in-law horror story conversations.  Hopefully we won’t mess that up by living together!  I guess we’ll just have to be really flexible and have good ground rules and cross our fingers.  Hey, there’s potential for us to have an even closer relationship because of this, too.  It’ll be nice for the kids to get to know their grandparents and other California relatives better.  And Marin is beautiful and green and has perfect weather…and I might “get” to feel my first earthquake (small ones only, please).  We’ll be lots closer to my family, too.  We’ll only be 10 hours away instead of our current 24+.  Yay!

Tags: California, clutter, in-laws, moving, packing