Spring break is here on the west coast, and instead of heading off for a vacations, our house is swallowed in chaos.
We are kid free, but still chaos!
Our kids are off on a 2 week holiday with their grandparents, and it is saving us from total meltdown. We are 1 week away from moving into our new house, which wouldn’t have stressed us out as much if we hadn’t just been able to get 1 17ft moving van.
One.
17ft.
We have way more stuff than that.
So, we have rented a storage unit, and are busy pre-moving everything we can in there. Kids rooms are emptied, and everything that is not necessary (coffeemaker!!) can go in the van.
Add to this the fact that we STILL have more fencing to do, a gate to build and haven’t yet figured out where the rabbits are going to go.
Or actually checked to see if ALL those chickens will fit into the dog crates we have.
And the broody hen? Well, her eggs should be hatching this weekend. Days, or even HOURS before we move. Cause moving a broody hen and her chicks is super easy.
And each morning I wake up and my inbox is filled. There are still a dozen half filled boxes upstairs just waiting to be finished, and I haven’t even started on the kitchen.
It is the total opposite of the calm before the storm. It is the hurricane before the storm. The typhoon, before the hurricane, before the storm.
The flood, in the middle of the typhoon, before the hurricane before the storm.
And me without a raft, or even a paddle.
It is that point when you know you are still climbing uphill, you know the peak is there ahead of you, but you just can’t see it yet. You know you will eventually reach it, and you will survive, and everything will work out.
But at this moment you are in the heat of the struggle and it is hard to imagine what it will feel like to NOT be climbing. It is hard to believe that soon you WILL be sitting on a sunny patio, with a cold beer in your hand proud of what you accomplished.
So you just keep climbing, and you do what you can to make that final summit easier. You tie your shoelaces tight, and drink lots of water. You rest when you can.
Because we will be moving in 6 days, and the prep will then be over. And after that we will have a moment to breath again. . . and it will all be worth it.