Progress Report


We have packed everything up. 

And unpacked it all to go back through it.  (We ran out of space.) 

After asking ourselves “do we really need that?” for each item we made two piles – yay or nay.  Then we went through the house to gather everything else that needs to be packed.  Now it’s all piled up in the sunroom and Jonathan is packing up. 

Again. 

We’re supposed to have dinner and spend the night with friends in Charlotte.  We’re trying to make it.  What a feat this is! 

Think of packing for a week-long trip, add onto that about 125 weeks and remember you are starting this trip with a 7-week old baby.  Oh.  And two dogs.  Then remember that you aren’t traveling within the U.S. and you’re not going to a country in Europe.  You’re going to a country on the east coast of Africa where many things aren’t available.  Whew.  Lots of decisions to make!  What can you do without (ice cream maker given to us by a friend – sniff, sniff), what could you live without but you’d rather not (M-n-M’s), and what do you just have to have (gas drops for the fussy baby)?

Speaking of baby – here’s what he’s doing…

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