We have a moving date!
Well, two actually, it'll be confirmed this Thursday by the moving company, but we are going to be moving by the end of the week! The movers* will be coming either this Friday afternoon or Saturday morning so we'll be on our way by the end of the weekend!
*Yeah, I know, you're hiring movers and you don't have a job? I know. But, after pricing out how much it would cost us to rent a truck and move ourselves (via UHaul, Budget and Penske), plus the additional cost in gas, liability insurance, etc. (not to mention the actual physical aspect of moving, especially when one of us can not lift heavy things right now so we'd probably have to hire a few guys for a few hundred bucks to help us with our furniture, etc.) and working with the moving company who moved us last time, we found that we'd almost be saving money, or at the very least breaking even, by going with them again (we had a great experience last time and I'm working with the same guy again). Not only do they disassemble and reassemble all furniture for us at the pick-up and delivery, but we get a month of storage free (which is helpful considering we're not yet certain where we are moving to, nor have an address yet for delivery) and it covers liability insurance and all gas, tolls, etc. All we have to do is be packed and ready to go (otherwise they charge you for packing materials, which is where the price gets hefty). We bought boxes ourselves at UHaul and have been busy packing, so we ought to be ready!
In the meantime, I've been trying to get the last good out of our pantry and freezer before we leave. I've made a batch of "The Works" Oatmeal Bar cookies, though this time I added a 1/2 cup of peanut butter and omitted the cranberries. YUM! With the amount of nutrients these have in them, from the oats, whole grain, molasses and peanut butter, these are like an energy bar, but taste like a cookie! I figure that we'll eat some while we're home and they'll be an easy, packable treat on the road. Plus, it finished up the last dregs of two canisters of oatmeal (old-fashioned and instant, which we keep around for camping) along with the last remnants of one jar of peanut butter, a jar of coconut oil, the rest of a few bags of brown sugar, chocolate chips and the last few drops of molasses I had on hand. It also got me to a place where my frugal mind felt comfortable throwing away the last cup or so of flour at the bottom of my bag. Plus I baked them in a disposable pan I had around, so need to do dishes, or wait to pack my pans. Not bad for a cookie!
We also lunched today on the last of a bag of lentils, cooked up in my last pint of frozen chicken stock plus additional water, onions and garlic, with some browned kielbasa on top that I found hidden in the back of my freezer this morning. We have leftover lentils (it was about 1-1/2 to 2 cups dried that I cooked up) for a cold lentil, snap pea and shrimp salad for dinner tonight (mixed up with the last half of a bottle of Newman's Own Italian Salad dressing that has been in my fridge forever.) YUM!
I have one breakfast worth of granola (though now that the oatmeal is gone, we might have to buy a carton of yogurt for it, or just eat it with milk) left over and one breakfast worth of bacon and eggs. I also have one "batch" of pastry dough in my freezer so I might either make a quiche with the eggs and bacon instead, or make a free-form berry tart with it with the 1-1/2 cups or so of frozen mixed berries I have left over (blender has already been packed, so smoothies are no longer an option!). That might work well for a breakfast too . . . maybe topped with the rest of that yogurt I have to buy for the granola? :)
Other than that I have about half of a bag of chicken "hot" wings left over from Costco, which makes for easy lunches or snacks and a skirt steak which I think we'll grill tomorrow night and then have for lunch leftovers on Thursday as quesadillas to finish up our whole wheat tortillas and some cheese.
If we finish all that up, we are looking good! There are a few things that I know we're not going to be able to eat in time, three bags of frozen broccoli, a bag of frozen pearl onions (I buy these for ONE recipe that I make from time to time, Boeuf Bourguignon, which I am not making this week), a few bags of frozen, pureed pumpkin that I'd processed this past fall to make these muffins, but I'm hoping that I can give it away to neighbors (my next door neighbor's kids love those muffins and I've shared the recipe with her), friends and the foodbank (the frozen veggies are unopened) in the meantime.
We also still have basics . . . cheese, peanut butter and jelly, bread and tortillas, canned salmon, etc. so we can whip up something easy pretty quickly, and we are bringing an ice-chest with us on our trip so some of the basic condiments we have left over we'll be bringing for sandwiches on the road (along with my sourdough starters, of course), but I'm feeling better knowing that we have given it our all to finish up what God has provided before we leave!
We don't yet know where they'll be delivering our items, but at least we're headed in the right direction! Thank you for all of your prayers and please keep us in your thoughts!
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Oh, my gosh, I'm tired just reading all of that! :>)
Hey, I had one more thing on cloth diapers that I remembered - their clothes fit snugger and they grow out of them faster so to speak. I have a pair of 24 month overalls on my 23 month old (gasp - she'll be 2 in ONE MONTH) and they're pretty snug in the crotch because of her diaper bulk, even though she's average or so height.
When she started crawling, though, I was thankful for cloth diapers to help keep her pants on because she's so skinny, though! (Ah, those were the days.) And I have put disposables on her for a day when she was wearing something that was otherwise too small.
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