We have no assets!

Brad and I are officially without assets.  We have sold our house and our car and most of our possessions are either in a storage vault or on a truck en route to London via air or sea.  What a crazy feeling!!!

It has been quite a feat to get to this point, and I am sad to be leaving the comforts of family and friends, but I am even more excited to see what is in store for our family of 5 as we start this next chapter of our lives.  I am thankful for all the prayers and support and encouragement throughout this process. 

What a whirlwind this week has been.  Monday at 3 AM, Brad took Drew to the ER because he was complaining of stomach pains, but they said all is normal.  (This visit is after 2 weeks of serious GI issues.)  Our pediatrician recommends a gluten-free diet (for the kid who was thankful for 5 things, 4 of which were his family and the 5th chicken nuggets), so we are attempting that.  He has eaten a lot of French toast sticks in the past few weeks.  Brad and I went to Trader Joes and Whole Foods tonight and looked at 6 different types of gluten free oreos and EVERY SINGLE ONE has eggs in it.

Monday, the movers came and packed up all the items to go in storage while we are in London.  We were planning to come to my mom's house to spend the night, but she was diagnosed with the flu on Saturday, so we opted to wait another night.  But we did get have dinner with the Mauzys and the Deans and Mum Mum, so that was fun.  Tuesday, the movers came and packed all the items for storage on the truck and made some good headway on the stuff for the "sea shipment."

We got Wednesday and Thursday off for the holidays and we had a great Christmas, with some good family time.  Of course, never a dull moment, Alison and Drew were unintentionally egg allergy challenged with a gluten free pizza that we discovered had eggs in it after Alison started complaining of stomach pains.  The good news is that Drew was not at all affected.

Today, the movers came and packed up the remaining goods for shipment.  All the stuff we wanted on the air shipment was within the weight and size limits.  Thankfully, Drew will get his train table in 2 weeks rather than 6 weeks!  Shoo!  They were finished around 5:30, and then we sold the van and we were officially without assets.

Tomorrow should be an interesting day...we have 10 bags (the maximum allowed) to check, as well as 8-9 carry-on bags (including one cooler of food for our food allergy kids), not to mention 5 coats and a stroller.  It should be an exhausting day, but hopefully everyone will sleep at least a little (or maybe a lot) on the plane, and we will all be super excited to check out our new house in London!!!

cheers....until London (Unless Lauren the guest blogger decides to put in her two cents again!)