Apparently, I never actually posted Part 3 until today... so you are being rapidly kept in the loop.

This move is really starting to seem like reality for me. As an organizer I have had a few struggles with the whole waiting game... as well as working on other peoples schedules and time tables, instead of my own.

Yesterday, we went up to Hood River to check out some new homes. I felt really encouraged by what we saw and the realtor we met with. It was weird to look at so many empty homes and know that one day soon, this might be mine.

After spending the afternoon looking at houses, we (my better half and I) talked the whole way home about what comes next. We figured out that if we can get through the holidays, sometime at the first of the year is when we will get our house on the market and make some definite decisions on our new home.

I expressed my frustrations (and struggles) with just sitting and really not doing anything around the house. Knowing that we have tons of packing, painting and touching up to do it's hard to just sit, so.... I have made the executive decision to do what I can today!

The first box was packed today. In our bathroom on the main level, I have lots of old family photos on the walls... kind of like memory lane. I decided that I was going to start there... Here is my tentative list of things I need to do:

1. Pack up all the photos
2. Fill in all the nail holes
3. Paint
4. Measure the register cover and replace
5. Call about getting the flooring replaced

Kind of a short list, but that will surely keep me busy for a week or two along with some other miscellaneous tasks I have wrestled up to do. I think that the hardest thing for me is to not just take the bull by the horns and run with it.

I am trying... I guess that's all I can do right?