Orders for Japan Have Arrived!!!

We finally have our official orders for Japan! We are very excited to be moving to Japan. What we are not that excited about is moving! In the next week, I have to basically go through everything in the house and decide if it 1) goes to Japan, 2) goes to storage, or 3) goes to my parents' house. Seems simple, right? Of course not!

Goes to Japan has two subcategories: do the items go in a) our unaccompanied baggage or b) our household goods? Unaccompanied means that it should come sooner and includes things like pots and pans and my husband's uniforms and things we will need to get going once we get there. That doesn't mean it will be waiting for us when we get there. It just means it should come within a couple of weeks or so of us arriving on Okinawa. Household goods (large furniture, etc.) come sometime after that. I hope this goes fairly smooth. We already purged our house of unneeded items through our very successful garage sale. {Sidenote: Being from Wisconsin, I really call it a rummage sale but only to myself and family. People in Missouri look at me funny if I say "rummage." Seriously!?! People who say things like, "plum full" and "y'all" think "rummage" is a weird word. Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.....}

Packing up things for my parents' house will be easy. Basically all of my breakable vintage kitchenware will go there. All of my cute Pyrex and pink kitchen stuff I have found throughout the years rummaging (I said it) and thrifting and don't trust anyone to move or put in storage will be going there. It will be safe in my parents' basement. Thank you, Mom and Dad!

Either way you slice it, this is all going to suck. But it does mean that we now know what day we are flying out and that I can spend a lot more time at my parents' house than previously projected. Hopefully we will still be on speaking terms when I leave the country. Unfortunately, this means we will be around to attend the Air Force Ball. This morning, I tried on the last formal I wore before getting pregnant and it fits and the shoes are still in my closet so I would consider myself good to go. Now if that just didn't require me showing up...