Moving

Wow it has been a quite awhile since I updated my blog! As an introvert my response to lots of changes and challenges is to withdraw and recover. That is what I have been doing for the past couple of weeks. Now however it is time to peek back out of my shell. So hi again world :) What have you been doing the last couple of weeks?

So time for a quick catch-up... I finished and traveled home to Everett from Cultural Adaptation Training on June 9th. Then I spent a week sorting, packing, and preparing to move to Oregon to live with my parents until my departure for Indonesia. The big move happened Father's Day weekend. If you have never tried to sort through a 1200 square foot house and get rid most of it I don't suggest you do it alone. Thankfully I had a great moving team! My parents were able to come up to help and my two of my sisters who live in Seattle also spent most of Saturday helping with the heavy lifting.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend and of my great crew!

Sisters Kara and Laura packing the U-haul

The sorting area - there is an actually a method to our madness

Mom climbing the walls to remove pictures

Sisters hard at work

Settled in at my parent's house in Hood River, Oregon

It was a blessing to set-up my own bed at my parent's house and get settled! It is home for now with my cat Missy, Eduardo the wooden duck (a house-warming gift from my sisters five years ago when I first moved to Everett) and my parents.