1. Get so excited about the move so that while you’re telling your friend about it on the phone early in the morning, your husband and kids get woken up thinking that you are yelling at someone on the phone when in actual fact you’re just expressing your excitement {loudly} about the fact that your fridge will fit in the new kitchen and won’t have to fit in the dining room as it does now!
2. Be prepared for everyone to know that you are moving before you get a chance to tell them because your DD8 will tell every single living, breathing being.
3. Console your husband when he complains about all that time he spent levelling out the ground and putting up the pool fencing so the kids could have their own pool.
4. Be sure you have a Plan B and C for the birthday parties that were meant to be held the week after moving week. Having a live band at the new house may not be a positive thing for first impressions with your new neighbours.
5. Keep the camera ready for moments like when the baby is walking backwards with the packing tape she thinks you don’t know she has and she falls into one of the boxes. Her look of surprise was priceless and even more funny when we just burst out out laughing at her!
6. Make a point of reminding your husband that it’s not you that is the hoarder in the family while he packs up his old soccer shirts that are so thin you could spit through them.
7. Put together a nice pile of stuff to donate to charity and feel good that even though you can’t donate money, the things will be used by people who may need them. Except the old book case that needs to be held together by industrial clamps. That can FINALLY be tossed!
8. Return the library books that you swore to the librarian that you had returned months ago and that she didn’t do her job properly and didn’t update the computer system and was trying to get money out of you.
9. Thank your friends for reminding you that Feb 17 (the day you get the keys) is only 6 days away and how you have so much to do. Laugh (through gritted teeth) when they say “glad it’s you and not me!”
10. Making a mental list of who you’re going to give your new address and phone number and who you’re not going to tell. Need to cull your group of friends, move house and “forget” to pass on the details ;P
11. Mutter a few colourful words when your husband suggests packing away your laptop so you get more packing done and actually get the move completed instead of blogging about the move in the midst of it.
