How are we doing?

We've been saying goodbye to lots of friends and family around here. The most common questions are, "So, are you ready? Are you all packed?" To which the answer is quite well summed up in frantic email to my buddy Melissa (getting married in June!).

Aww, thanks for kind words. I'm still sorry that I can't throw you a shower or anything. And at this point, I'm not sure if we can do a pamper day before I leave...

...so you asked how we were doing. I'm starting to stress out about the move. We got complacent after the big sale of our house, thinking that we're mostly packed from the house being staged. But it just dawned on me last week that we only have two weeks left before the moving vans come and we do have some packing still left. You know how people with house cleaners say that they always have to clean before the cleaners come? Well, we have to pack before the packers come. We need to pack for our big road trip and the first month while in furnished corporate housing (won't have access to our boxes). So we have some significant work ahead of us.

And as if it wasn't enough, we're also saying bye to friends which has been great but man, this weekend was just party party party. Literally. Next weekend shouldn't be so "bad" as we have just one party per day. But the kids must be exhausted and we're getting no packing done while partying. We party because we'd regret leaving without saying goodbye to friends. But if we keep saying goodbye instead of packing, we'll never leave! And not only do we need to pack, we need to plan our trip! Luckily we have a place to stay at our first stop, Legoland: my cousin's in San Diego. But otherwise, we're "winging it" and winging it for two semi Type A personalities like us means that we want to know which towns we want to visit and stay in but we just don't know when so we can't make reservations until a day or two ahead of time. So we're not being all *that* spontaneous.

Exhale...breathe...this will all happen somehow and I'll end up in Boston 2 months from now and can't believe we actually made it. I can't believe something we've been thinking about for years (more seriously for a year, publicly declared for half a year) now is about to become reality. It's surreal to think that in a little over a month, we will be in a new metro area. We've been in CA for 15 years, for just about all of our post-college adult life. Do we know anything different from CA? We're about to find out!