Moving….Moving…Moving

When I typed that I ended up with a song stuck in my head! I mean I am singing it as I type. Some days it just happens. Anyway I was talking to my friend in Arlington earlier and she was telling me about the new house the had purchased but she was so busy she didn’t know if she was ready to deal with a move too. I told her that I would help in way I could even though I was s o far away. I mean there had to be something I could do even if was to just listen to her complain sometimes.

She told me that she wanted to hire an Arlington moving company to make things a little easier on her but she didn’t know where to begin. When she first moved there after college she didn’t have that much to move and she right into the house her husband had. I don’t have all the details about the house but if I remember correctly it was his grandparents and they had left it to him. So all she had to was move in. 

Now, she is making a big move for the first time in her life and she is a little lost. I have been sitting her trying to think about my first big move. You know the kind of big move where you have to move furniture, clothes, everything. I realized mine was so many years ago. In fact, I can remember the first time the Army moved us. At least the first time I have any memory of it. I was not yet ten and we were making a huge move.

I remember being so excited but I also remember we didn’t have to do anything. My mother packed a suitcase for each of us and that was it. The movers came in and packed up everything. Everything got labeled and all of our stuff got loaded in to a big tractor trailer. I will never forget the name of the company, Mayflower. Every time I see one of their trucks out on the highway I think about the people who moved us. That move was one of the most important in my life. It brought us to our new base but also the place where ultimately we would settle and my father would be buried. 

It’s funny to think about that now as an adult. The things that a move can do to a child. The way that particular move stuck with me. I mean we moved a lot over the years but that one was the most important in my life. It grounded us for the first time. I also know that my friend’s kids were going to have a hard time dealing with the move. They are going to have to switch schools and some of their friends will be a little further away. That is never fun. Moving locally in melbourne to a new city can be a big change, and its important to be prepared.

Anyway, back to my friend. I told her that she should certainly get an Arlington moving company to deal with all of the heavy lifting. It would make her life so much easier. She could just direct everyone on what she wanted done. It would allow her to relax more and feel better about the move into her new house. I also told her I wanted to be invited to her new house so I could see how wonderful it was. Once it was all set up and she was moved in. I don’t want to do any heavy lifting after all!