Finally, we've started making progress towards "The Great Move."
1) The first big step in truly making the move was telling my Gramma. It's been a month now (almost) since my PopPop passed away, and she asked us to come down this weekend to take her to the cemetery. We did that and spent most of the weekend down there, gauging whether enough time had passed that it was okay to tell her. We told her over dinner Saturday night, and amazingly, she was excited about it. No worries at all.. in fact she's already planning her trip over with Ray's Gramma! I'm so relieved!
2) Ray finished his visa application - at least the 98% of it. The visa fee (a whopping $400! Luckily he's getting reimbursed!) for some reason didn't go through (maybe their credit card processing system was down?). Anyway, once that goes through - the official visa paperwork is started and the real countdown to Ray's departure begins!
3) We've started cleaning out our stuff. Tonight we worked on the basement - at least 1/3 of it. We sorting stuff out into trash, keep, and sell. So far, the sell pile is a lot smaller than I thought, the trash pile is about the size I thought, and the keep pile is actually pretty small. Also, we've discovered how many picture frames we have that we never used (I think we got them all as wedding gifts) and how much kitchenalia I have that I don't use.
That's the beginning of the beginning.... I can't wait for the end of the beginning!
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Glad it went well with your Gram. Me, however, I'm pretty sad about it :(
Don't be sad until you've checked out all the stuff in the basement! I promise you early-looksies :)
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