We still do not have PCS orders, but it can’t be too far away. Our request for a compassionate reassignment has made it to the top of the chain and we should hear something this week. Although we are hoping for Colorado, we know it could be anywhere.
We have finally finished the bathroom! All of our flooring is done, the bathroom is painted and the cabinets are installed. For the cheapest thing at Home Depot, they sure brighten up the room and look nice. We’ll see what happens after renting it for a while.
The newest challenge is doing our own Dity Move. There are so many families moving to and from Anchorage this summer that the moving companies are anticipating saturation. We are opting to do our own move (called a Dity Move, mentioned above). We toyed with the idea of doing a U-haul, then looked at PODS (there are no services up here right now) and think we may have settled on ABF. They will leave a trailer in front of our house three days before the move, drive it to our destination and give us 3 days to unpack it. We will only have to drive our car and pull a small trailer. I like this much better than our previous scenario of being stuffed into a UHaul cab, PULLING the Suby.
The challenge within the challenge is keeping a toddler happy for the 10+ days it will possibly take to drive from Anchorage to Destination X. A good chunk of that time will be spent driving through Canada, with little around to look at. I’ve googled and dogpiled, goodsearched and yahoo’d and have come up with a list of toys/findings that should be useful for our trip. I also have a “treasure box” system in the works and will post pictures of it when it’s done.
I have so many projects that need to be finished before this move comes to fruition!
