T- Minus 40 hours


We're getting down to the wire here on getting out of our house.  We'll be leaving ALOT of stuff behind.  In the before time, if I'd even paid any attention, I would be amazed at how people left their houses when they had to leave due to foreclosure.  Now I get it.  I'm sure they, like us, agonized for months over what decision to make - stay or go.  We went back and forth until about two weeks ago, when we realized that we could never fully save the house, so we had to leave.  It's amazing to me how much stuff we have.  I knew we had a lot, but we have a deadly amount.  And, we've kept things in very little sense of order.  Consequently, we are having to organize, purge and pack all at the same time.  Priorities shift.  What was important a few years ago, no longer is.  


When the tornadoes hit Joplin and other places earlier this year, I looked at the images and imagined the lives of those affected - everything is gone.  In a way, that would be nice, to have the decisions made for me, but the reality is I need to go through this, make my own decisions.  Choose what I will keep and what I will let go away.  It gets easier by the hour.