Thinning down for the trip

Today is Monday and, not unlike many who will read this, my wife Rebecca and I discuss what to accomplish around the house this week. Perhaps the biggest difference for us is what looms in the background. On May 5, "Cinco de Mayo", we have a different sort of party planned at our home. This is the day when a team of commercial movers is set to arrive with a large sea-going container and intentions of packing into it everything we own and expect to take to Alaska.

So just how does one plan one's week of house work? What's the point of getting overconcerned with straightening, cleaning, or preparing for much more than the move itself? And that's more or less where our focus is drawn...preparing to move out of our world any and all things that aren't going with us to our new home in Palmer.

So this week is going to be comprised of selling off the remainder of our inventory of handmade stationery from my all-but-closed business, getting everything that's banned-for-transport by the moving company identified and ultimately begin preparations for a KY Derby Day (May 1) moving sale.

Direction is good - knowing this is the next step in our preparation for the relocation somehow brings the anxiety down just one more notch. At a minimum, not having to think about all that lies ahead for having the daily to-do list formed is worth it. There really is an amazing mountain of items to get done before we pull out with the pickup and head west. But that's just part of the adventure...at least that's what I'm going to keep saying to myself.