Tomorrow at 7 AM the packers arrive to take some of our things to storage. And then on Weds our second shipment of stuff heads to Japan. This is the smaller-but-still large shipment of things that go by plane. Our enormous shipment that goes by ship has already been taken.
And then we leave on Thursday for what is sure to be a fun filled trip full of laughter and peace and deep thoughts and conversation ....oh no, wait, we're driving for 18 hours with three children under five. One of which will eat every half hour or so it seems. Dear God, let us all survive with sanity more or less intact.
I have thoughts,oh so many thoughts, about leaving Rochester and the end of Tim's residency and leaving my alternate residency family and leaving Tim's actual family, and Emilia's first two months of life and what it's like to see Addie with her sister and Graydon as an older brother, and oh my heavens, I want to blog so so badly. I'm so afraid that I'm going to forget how this feels and that if I don't pin it down, I'll lose it, and THAT makes me want to burst into tears for roughly the 875th time in the past four months.
Still, I'm going on hiatus due to technical difficulties. Really, I have two main problems. The first and most insurmountable is that we will be in North Carolina for roughly a month, and we will have internet access but only via Kindles and the iPad and have you ever tried to blog on a touch screen? It's awful. Seriously. The only thing that could be slower and more excruciating than "hunt and peck" is actually setting the type on a big ass printing press and cranking out a physical copy a la the 18 century. I would rather write it out longhand and kick it medieval style with illuminated capitals and awesome calligraphy than hunt and peck because at least then I could wear my robe all day and listen to Gregorian chants and get high on incense.
The second is that none of the devices mentioned above have my camera program on them and I don't like doing multiple entries without photos. A few here and there are fine but I like pictures and blogging actually spurs me to work on my (admittedly poor) photography skills.
Therefore I probably won't blog again until August. Ugh. Wretched but unfortunately necessary. So, until August, dear blog.
