I have been given my official end date at International Paper. My last day will be on June 15th. My group consisted of six women and we worked very well together. They were my lunch buddies and we truly enjoyed working with one another. The dynamics of our group started to change last month when Deborah left to join Xerox. Last week, my boss Andrea and my assistant Melinda left after the annual meeting of the Company. Now, there's just Mary, Carol and I until the end. I've started training my replacement and packing up my office. All the pictures and art work on my wall from Matthew's visits to my office and the art work contributed from my nephew Nicholas when he was visiting from Florida has been put away into a box and will go into storage.
Meanwhile, things are moving right along for Tony as well. The moving company sent two movers over last week to pack the air shipment of essentials for Tony. I had spent the previous week segregating a lot of household and non perishable food items for Tony so he could get the new home started until Matthew and I arrive in July. The movers arrived around 11:30 in the morning and it blew my mind to see the stuff packed and on the truck in less than an hour. It was as if locusts came in and invaded our home. I had never seen anything like it. In an effort to prepare the home to go on the rental market soon, I had scheduled the movers to return yesterday to start the process of putting stuff into storage for us. I truly thought we would only have about 20 boxes going into storage but, was amazed when it was more like 40. The movers showed up at 8:30 in the morning and by 9:45, everything was boxed and on the truck. The movers will return again in a few weeks and work with us over a three day period to move most of our furniture into storage and pack the items for shipment to China. We will be left with the bare minimum until July 6 when the balance of what's left will be removed from our home and into the storage facility. Pretty scary when you realize your entire house will be locked up in a room somewhere for the next three years.
It never ceases to amaze me how much stuff one can accumulate. We've been in this home less than three years but yet, we somehow have stuff everywhere. Matthew's been really good about cleaning out his toys and has donated quite a bit to his little buddy Nicholas in New Jersey. We've also donated some of it to Piper's Hill, the child care center that Matthew started with when he was three months old. A bulk of the games and books went to Piper's Hill and I've donated quite a bit of books to the local library. My nephew Nicholas in Florida was also the lucky recipient of Matthew's computer games and toys. He was pretty happy when the box arrived from Connecticut.
We're getting down to the wire and I still have to sell my car and hope to find a good tenant to live in our home. So much to do...so little time left.
