Moving Rule: Sort your stuff

The movers are coming!The movers are coming! They'll be here tomorrow in fact. We've got 350 pounds of air freight sitting on the dining room table and various sundries strewn around the house in loosely organised piles. It seems that while a moving company will make the heavy labour of the actual day easier, preparing for them to come is not yet my strong suit. The crux of the problem (I'm telling myself) is that we have so many different destinations for our plentiful supply of stuff. We have stuff going in the car across the country, in suitcases with the girls and me on the plane, in an air shipment to Virginia and then even more stuff to storage in Maryland. The storage items won't be seen until months after we go to post and our apartment in Virginia has limited storage from what I can tell. The girls won't stop growing, no matter how much I try to convince them, and so we need items to accommodate that. It's a bit of a headache and to top it off, Baby M has a cold (as do I, but I am slightly better at managing it). She's not a great sleeper at the best of times but she's really exploring the definition of the phrase 'no sleep at all.' Such is life! So many moving pieces to consider and try to align, even my list making didn't really help. The task was simply too big! However, the movers are coming and there's nothing we can do to stop them. So we better go to bed.