Boxes...

In November of 2011, we began to pack up our home in anticipation of our move to Conway. We...and by "we" I mean "I"...boxed up half of our stuff, and then Jim moved it to a storage building...so that we could make the "fake house" when we listed it with the realtor. You know, like really neat, clean people lived there.

NOT.

When the time came to move, I boxed and packed most of our things that were left in the house. Jim got the other boxes out of storage, and we moved here to Conway. And unloaded everything into the garage.

And started to unpack.

Jerry Seinfeld does a whole 'spoof' on boxes...how we spent our whole lives looking for boxes. Boxes for our stuff, boxes to move our stuff...and then when we die, we realize that we've finally found the perfect box...but we're buried in it! 

Anyway...where was I? Oh, yeah...unpacking boxes...

...until our two up in Fayetteville decided to move, and we were happy to go up and help them pack their boxes...and we helped them unpack and get settled in their temporary home...our "for sale" house, which had just been sitting there empty. Then we came back home to our garage, still full of boxes from OUR move.

Now those two are moving again...to their very own FIRST home this time...and we were happy to help them pack up all their belongings. We also packed up and removed the last of our items from our old house (which still hasn't sold) (long story).

We helped them unpack their boxes and got them settled in their new home. In 2 days, both of their cars were snug and safe and parked in their garage.*

As for us? We came back home to our own garage full of boxes, and NO CARS, and started again the process of unpacking.

And when I'm done, no one is going anywhere for a really long time.

Because...if I see one more box... 

"Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth." (1 John 3:18)

*And just for the record, Holly and Aaron worked just as hard as we did with the packing and the unpacking. And some of Aaron's family helped with the heavy lifting as well. Moving is hard work. It goes so much faster with many hands, am I right? And they are just starting out and have NO WHERE NEAR the amount of junk like we have accumulated in the 32 years that we've been married.