Breezee Barns**Before I go into this post, I just want to make it very clear, moving time is for the birds. Due to our situation, this wasn’t the final move☹️either. Moving time always causes so much stress and anxiety for everyone involved. I despise the idea of boxing up a house and unboxing everything as well. Yes, we have used movers in the past, only to load trucks, but it still just SUCKS. Plus using movers is expensive unless your company or military pays to it, then it’s not so bad.
Loading day
My husband and I had already unloaded 2 moving vans into a storage unit ourselves, now it was the final load. With the help of several friends and a seasoned professional mover, everything was loaded up within a few hours. It’s crazy how quickly it went and how much we stuffed into that moving van.
Final step for the night would be loading the car on a trailer. Once the car was on the trailer, everything would be ready to head out the following morning. That turned into a fiasco. Little did we know that after the car got loaded on the trailer, my husband couldn’t get the door open to get out. Due to the height of the trailer side rails and how low the car was, when he sat in the car, the doors hit the side rails. After some creative thinking and maneuvering, like getting in and out of the General Lee on the Dukes of Hazard, he was finally able to get out. It sure gave us a good laugh, which we needed after all the work we had been doing.
Time to Move North
With tired bodies from all the work, we attempted to get a good night sleep on air mattresses. Knowing how long the drive would take, wakey, wakey time was early. The girls and fur babies didn’t like the early wake up call! It was time for the one last look at what we were leaving behind and saying goodbye to the life in the city. Vehicles were fueled up, snacks were loaded, family and fur babies all had their spots. Let the trek begin!
To reach our destination, we crossed 3 state lines, had a few stops to stretch, get some food and refuel. After about 12 hours of traveling, we pulled into the farm after dark, took out the necessities and headed inside. Driving can be so exhausting, so we were ready to get the sleep our bodies needed. Our bodies needed a good recharge for all the work we needed to do the next day. Oh, and the cold temperatures, we weren’t prepared for.
Unloading and Making Room
We were blessed to be welcomed to our new surroundings with -38-degree temperatures🥶 That in itself was a culture shock to our bodies since the day before was around 40 degrees. My awesome husband and 1 daughter braved the brutal cold morning and met some new friends at a new 30 foot storage unit, (yes, we filled our first unit), to unload our truck. I don’t know how they did it, but they had that moving van unloaded in about 45 minutes. The second unit was filled top to bottom, back to front.
With the unloading occurring, my other 2 daughters and myself were making room in the bedrooms for us to put our clothes and other essential items. Everything was a hot mess we were dealing with. With the passing of my mother, my father was doing very little inside the house, so that now fell on me and the girls, since that ‘s just how he grew up. I’m not the best at keeping a spotless house, but I do try to do my best to make sure it stays clean since we have children with allergies. On top of just the cleaning, I began to help my father go through my mothers things. It was time to decide what to keep and what to get rid of. The transition to the “new” way of life has now beginning.
Time to Transition
Transitions are always so hard to do. Adjusting to the “new” way of life takes times. It was surely an inconvenience for us to move in with my dad. Yes, we are grateful he allowed us to stay with him. Our craziness disrupted his daily schedule, but he didn’t complain. We were able to help ease a few burdens for him, but it was still a struggle for everyone. We were all use to doing our own things for so long and independently. Now we had to get into a completely new mindset and how and what we were doing.
The hardest adjustment was space. We left our spacious home and moved into a much smaller area. We were now living with just what we needed to get through each day. This was only a temporary move, but that didn’t make things easier.
Each day felt like we were living in a dark abyss. The sunrises were later than we were use to, and so were the sunsets. It took a lot of motivation to get out of bed each morning because of how dark everything was. As the seasons changed, so did we. The sunlight made everything much better. The mornings turned out to be amazing. It became a joy to hear several different birds singing each day. Our evening were so nice and peaceful. Life was beginning to be what we were looking for.
