Crazy Business!

I feel like my life has been a non-stop circus lately. Pretty much since Memorial Day weekend with Matt's graduation.... his fam and my parents and Jordan and Al and Evangeline here (which was SO much fun!!). Then my mom was here until the next Friday. And then packing mode commenced!

Pretty much most of my weekend time and days off have been filled with packing, researching housing or other things in Merced, chores around the house, and walking/jogging with Samson. I have been trying to do a little less on weeknights to give myself a little break, but sometimes that still doesn't happen. We've also already been busy cramming in when to see all of our friends before we leave. And for some reason I thought that my Thursday night church softball league was still a good idea in the mix of all of this... I must be crazy!

A side note on adding to the chaos... people have been getting moved around to different rooms at work as well as 2 new people starting... so it is just as crazy there as my home life is.

Moving progress report:
We have a moving company scheduled to load our stuff on Monday July 20. They will load everything and pack our furnature up and send the truck on its way. We got a $2800 moving allowance from Matt's school, which should only leave us with about $1000 to pay (this was a HUGE answer to prayer!).

It's a long story, but searching for housing, particularly an actual house to rent has proven rather difficult and time consuming with little results. I started looking at some apartments instead... and found a really nice looking complex that is only 0.7 miles from Matt's school (he could bike there). There is even a brand new dog park across the street! We are waiting to hear their decision about allowing Samson. They allow dogs up to 30 lbs, and then it's kinda a case by case basis beyond that. They also offer 6 month and month by month leases that we could choose and then possibly find a house once we're there. If it works out, I will post more info.

Matt and my last day of work is Thursday, July 2. Then from July 5-15 we will be gone camping both in Michigan and Washington. Then we return for final packing and cleaning, ah! We do have pretty much everything packed that we don't need right now.