A little closer....

So this May long weekend was definitely a productive one!  I was lucky enough to have Corey home with me, not only to help motivate me, but to help me go through the garage and start the packing.  So out of the enormous amount of stuff in the garage I am betting that I have thrown out 90% of it - so a lot less to have to take with us.

Still packing and organizing - terrified that the move day is going to come faster than I will be ready for.  Moving would be much easier if I didn't have kids and all of their activities.  Which of course was all self induced by me lol We do baseball for both kids Monday's and Wednesday's, Jackson has soccer Tuesday and Thursday, Sierra has baseball practice Thursday and Sunday, Jackson has dance on Thursday and Sierra has dance on Mondays and Tuesdays.  Add in tournaments and all evenings and weekends are devoured.

But I am grateful that I am not working right now, so that I can get a lot of things done during the day.  Not just the packing but the registering for school, contacting different moving companies to find the right fit, do the grocery shopping etc.

Plus I am trying to sell a couple of items we decided we didn't need to make the move with us if at all possible.

Add to all this I am again trying to quit smoking.  In fact tomorrow is my scheduled first day of no smoking.  I am on Champix and it seems to be reducing my cravings.  The new place will be smoke free.  Hopefully I can kick this addiction this time for good.

So as this move date gets closer I already find I am missing my friends - missing the ones that I can't seem to connect with here and definitely missing my friends down in Medicine Hat.  Seems weird that even though now I live 6 hours away at least I could make a quick weekend trip down there and soon, very soon that will no longer be an option for me.  And as much as I hate snow, I think I see myself spending every holiday back here in Alberta where the people and places are familiar.  And I realize that eventually the Island will be familiar but can't help but doubt it will ever feel like home.

And I wonder how will we meet people, make those friends you do stuff with?  I had numerous friends like that in the Hat but here I have only one or two, and I worry that making friends out there won't be so easy - and I may be worrying over nothing but worry is something I do very very well.

So here I sit among partially packed boxes, full boxes and empty boxes trying to decide what we won't need for the next 5 weeks.  And wishing I had some of my friends here, not to help but to chat with while I am packing.

Off to get the kids from school and then off to baseball........