MARCH 23rd - MOVING IN TO TENNESSEE DAY

The movers showed up early Monday and I was still at the hotel. Not a good start to the day. Maybe that's why they dropped the boxes like bombs in every room. Every box had a room label but they didn't all end up at the right destination. And the majority of the boxes are jam packed with who knows what and too heavy for me to move around...Very frustrating.

The head mover, Chad, was so nice to the kids. Brooke actually talked to him several times. She told him to be careful with her stuff and not to break her very old tea set. They loved playing on the boxes and running up and down the ramp. The movers played along when the kids would hide under the ramp and try to jump out and scare them...It was cute.

This is the tea set that Nathan's grandmother just passed down to Brooke. She said she had tea parties with this set with her grandmother when she was a little girl. It is all very beautiful and 70 years old...So special that Brooke has it now! The teapot even has a music box on the bottom. It was given to us about a week before the move. This picture was more of an inventory shot and definitely does not do it justice.
When they were almost done, Chad let them get in his cab to see in the inside and honk the horn a few times. I'm sure our new neighbors appreciated that.

The movers had little yellow stickers to put on every box/item that they were responsible for moving. There were 262 items! They would call off a number for everything they brought off the truck while I marked it off a "bingo" sheet. Here is just a glimpse of the boxes everywhere. The pictures didn't turn out too well from my camera phone but you get the idea.

I later found 7 more boxes inside the closet in the office...Unbelievable.

This is the master bathroom...Not such a good thing to have the toilet barricaded by boxes.

I took the pictures of the garage and kitchen before I went to get pizza for everybody. When I got back the open spaces were filled with even more boxes and no room to walk.

A couple of days later...

There is so much paper in the boxes...It's just excessive really. This picture is nothing compared to what it was. I actually threw half of the papers away the day before. It was completely covering the window. I bet the movers get a bonus for each roll of paper used. Cha-ching!

We'll probably get relocated again by the time I get done unpacking.