I hope we like it in our new townhouse, because I never want to move again.  We’ve had quite the ordeal. Thank goodness for Tim’s parents or we would never have pulled this off.  It felt like whatever could go wrong did.  We couldn’t get into our townhouse on Friday like originally planned because there was a mixup and it hadn’t even been cleaned then.  So we had to wait until Sunday to even walk in the door.  

On Sunday we hired student movers to help load our furniture into the U-haul, and they hadn’t even been working an hour when one of the guys got injured.  So his partner had to take him back to Oregon City and find a replacement worker.  During the three hour hiatus Tim and his dad took a pickup load full of stuff to the townhouse and finally got our keys.  But our furniture wasn’t completely unloaded into the new place until around 8 pm that night (and we now have a big hole in our wall from attempting to lug our couch up the narrow townhouse stairs…it eventually was lifted up and over the 2nd story balcony).  

On Monday Tim and his dad rented an additional U-haul trailer so we could fill it with the remnant crap that remained at the sold house.  There was more to do than we even imagined, so it wasn’t until Tuesday that we took the trailer back to the new townhouse to unload.  Too tired to deal with unloading it at night, we parked it in front of our garage and went to bed.  The next morning we found that both the truck and trailer had been towed while we slept.  Three hundred dollars later we reclaimed what was rightfully ours.  Then our realtor called to tell us that the new house owners had complained that we still left too much stuff at our old house.  It was mainly the paint cans and shingles that belonged to the house, but they wanted everything gone.  So Karen, bless her heart, took her own truck over to the house and got the final load herself.      

Lex has been a real trooper throughout all of this.  He is still such a happy kid.  We’re very lucky!

One positive thing that happened during the last week was that Tim didn’t have to sell his Bronco like he thought he would.  His nephew Mike volunteered to drive from Boise to pick it up and take it back to his place.  Mike and Robin arrived late on Friday night and spent the night on our air mattress downstairs before heading back to Boise on Saturday morning.  It was great to see them again, and we’re grateful for their help.      

We spent Thanksgiving with my aunt Ruth and cousins Robby and Ethan.  We all hit the buffet at the Portland Hilton downtown, and it was wonderful!  I knew it would be a good meal when I saw the chocolate fountain at the dessert table as we walked in the door =)

Now Tim and I are trying to get our townhouse in some semblance of order before he starts his new job on Tuesday.  That’s right!  My husband is now gainfully employed.  AudioMojo (his old company) was bought out by a company called Focus Enhancements, and they’ve hired him to work on the wireless speaker system that he helped to create.  Tim couldn’t be happier about this.  Not only will he be working on a project that he’s passionate about, but he already knows everyone there and the building is only two miles from our new home.