Packing up and/or selling all our things over the past weeks was hard. It was something were I found I just needed to focus on the end goal and turn off the emotional switch or I would never have got any of it done. One of our biggest items that needed to be sold was the tractor, we debated for a while with the idea of keeping it. But with Jared needing a different truck for his Feed Rep job, we sold the tractor so he could purchase a truck that suited the job and family needs better.
We got one dumpster for the last of the large wood items that were still left of the property.
Very handy having access to many boxes through Jared's work. Is there such thing as too many boxes? I'm pretty sure there was only 3-5 left over by the time we were done!
With the back deck still being very hot during late August and early September we found ourselves spending more and more time outside in the front of the house where it was more shaded. I would often find the girls sitting together on the front step playing together.
Part of me worried about what the girls would play with as I kept packing up more toys... turns out they just play with what every I'm packing. Today I was working in the kitchen so extra lids and such got taken out to play and the extra garden carrots got incorporated too!
Hazel loved to help pack and label boxes when Jade was napping. She kept asking to help with the labeling so I finally did give in, and handed her the masking tap and a sharpie and she decided that she was going to do the other kitchen label. She asked were to start and then I walked away to go work on packing another box. A while later Hazel announced that she was done and needed help getting the tape off the roll and onto the box. I was very impressed when I saw what she copied, I could easily read the word kitchen with a backwards C!
We kept this up with a few other boxes, on this one we reviewed the letters after she wrote them, as at this point she is just copying and still learning all the letter names. We noted that she did all the letters in the right order but had one letter backwards and was missing the space between the words.
and then on the next one she was able to put the space in! It was so neat to teach her along the way with just little tips of where to start and reviewing and rewarding later. We both really enjoyed it, and it was really special to be able to teach even though we were in the middle of a big move.
One more precious picture on the girls sitting on the font steps, I think they were coloring this time. 😍
At this point the house was mostly packed into the trailer with the last minute stuff being left until the next morning.
