The Packing Begins Again....

Our lives seem to be full of activities that don't really have an end.  My least favorite being the never ending packing debacle.

Step 1.
Take over two and a half rooms in Cliff & Monique's house.

Step 2.
Move everything to corners of rooms.

Step 3.
Refind all of our shit.

Step 4.
Make gigantic pile.

Step 5.
Kick cat out of suitcase.  Put clothes in suitcase.  Kick cat out of suitcase - throw mousey.  Put more crap in suitcase.  Jump up and down on it until it barely closes.  Repeat.

 

Step 6.

Jam your life's possessions into 2 bags that weigh exactly 50 lbs (plus one ungodly heavy carry-on).

Mission Accomplished.

Remodeling Finished! ... Sort of

Here's a quick remodel recap for those of you that are as sick of looking at the laundry room as us!

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After

  

In an effort to arrive in France sometime before the end of the new decade, we have decided to leave the other half of the remodel for a later date.  We really just wanted Cliff to be able to have a crack at drywalling!  Good Luck!  After over a week of the Washer/Dryer collecting sheetrock dust, Steph was psyched to finally be able to have some clean clothes again. 

  

Birthday Girl 09

 

 

  

  

  

Slew of Plan Options

The question persists...how and when will Ceph and Stam actually get to France???

Now, although this may seem like a simple enough question, turns out that it's actually quite difficult for us to answer! So instead of giving you one solid answer, I'm going to give you some of the possible answers we are trying to choose from.

Here we go:

Plan 1) We leave tomorrow (hope we get on a flight) - pack like mad people, b/c our stuff is scattered everywhere - leave the laundry room that we were doing construction on, in complete chaos - cats travel with us if it's warm enough (if not warm enough there's a whole different slew of options to choose from, including having my folks send them to us when it's warmer) - no sleep for 3 days - high irritation levels from both Ceph and Stam

Plan 2) Leave on Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday (hope we get on a flight) - finish home renovations (parents happy) - pack - cats travel with us if it's warm enough

Plan 3) We permanently move into my parents house in Chicago, only pretending we ever went to France - redo my parents entire house - Ceph begins getting a beer belly b/c she loves drinking beer after doing construction stuff (so cliché, but true)

Plan 4) We sit on our thumbs and twirl for an entire year, then move back to CO

Plan 5) I run for President, so I can have at least one cool story to tell people when we come back

So those are a taste of the first few options of plans...now for the France part. Once we get to France we need to get to the house somehow.

We could:

a) rent a car (cat friendly option, wallet friendly if traveling with cats--not so much if not traveling with cats)--13 hour drive

b) take the train (less cat friendly option, good option without the cats, bad with the cats)--6-8 hour ride

c) take another plane (more cat friendly, less wallet friendly)--1 hour flight

d) walk from Paris to Castex (it should only take us about 6 months to walk down there...I mean it's totally doable...)

This is just a taste of the many options that we are trying to figure out logistically. In other words...we probably won't know when we will go to France until we arrive in France. Who knew it could be so complicated? What plans sound good to you? Can you think of any better plans? If so, let us know!

Holiday Recap - Tea Party

 

  

  

 

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

Jay's Dream Procedure

Jay always wanted to Trachea someone...here is a great video on how to do it. :)

Holiday Recap - Wii Sports