FALLING ACORNS, MIGHTY OAKS

Summer Plans

I haven’t mentioned this much, since the “whole world” doesn’t know yet.  I think writing about it here is pretty safe, since I don’t think my site gets a lot of traffic.

I’m moving this summer.  I have about two weeks off to move, so I’m going to move some things, go to my parents’ for a day or two, and then get my cousins for a trip.  My plan is to have them help me with moving.  I want to get all the small things out of my current house and into my new house before we contend with moving the bigger items.  I have a LOT of stuff.  I won’t start the process until about July 6th, but I started packing last night.  I was putting away clothes and I reached the point where I was thinking “well, I probably won’t wear this again before I move” so I decided to start throwing stuff into pages.  I got my yoga pants, jeans, tights, most of my sweaters, and a lot of my tshirt collection packed.  I also packed up shorts that I won’t be wearing because well a girl has her favorites.  I got some books in tote bags as well.  I also managed to get about 5 loads of laundry done last night.

The laundry nearly killed me, but I was glad to have gotten it out of the way.  Now I’m faced with bags and such EVERYWHERE.  It will just have to be like this until I take the first trip there.  I imagine my first trip will be filled with a lot of the things that I have at my office, plus whatever random bags of clothes and such that I grab.

When I looked at houses, I didn’t take any photos of the inside of the homes.  I am super forgetful and saw so many places that I can’t remember a lot of the specifics about the house I chose (like the layout, the closet size, etc.).   When I pick up the keys, I’ll have to do a good walk through and get things situated.

I plan to use the second bedroom as a craft room, but I’m rethinking some of that.  I have had an interest lately in becoming a respite foster mama.  I’d have kids while their full time foster families needed a break or while they were traveling somewhere that they couldn’t take the kids (like out of state, maybe).  I also wouldn’t mind being available in emergency situations–like send me the kids if they need a place to stay over the weekend while their caseworker figures out where to place them.  I don’t know how much of a need there is for this where I am moving to or what the requirements would be.  The second bedroom in my home is on the second floor and there is no bathroom on the second floor, so I don’t think I’d like having a child up there unsupervised all night long.  Plus if I had a younger kid and they were crying, I wouldn’t be able to hear them necessarily.  I’ll just have to see where this life takes me.  No sense in stressing about it too much, since I don’t even have furniture to really make that a possibility at the moment.

All in all, I’m super excited for what life is going to throw at me next.