Wow! 2 blogs in one week, how does that happen? :-) My husband is visiting family this weekend while I am taking advantage of the time he is gone by preparing for our move. The movers will be here in 5 days (what??!) and I still have a lot to do. Most important on the list is probably taking pictures of all our stuff and recording serial numbers from our electronics. I also need to make a list of things that we are planning on taking with us. My plan is to have us all packed for travelling and put everything that the movers aren't taking into the kids bathroom. I'll just tape off that door and put a big sign on it so everyone knows to leave that room alone, I hope! The kids and I are working on eating what food we have in the pantry, fridge, and freezer this weekend. I'm not having the movers take food.

I have grand plans to make some kind of sign for each state we are going to pass through so we can take pictures of the kids, documenting our trip. Dave has arranged for shipment of his vehicle, my van has been to the mechanic and is ready for the long drive, I have one doctor's appointment left on this coast. It feels like there are a thousand little things that still need to be done. The weirdest part for me is that I am not actually packing things in boxes. I feel like I should have all our stuff packed away by now!

While I am not excited about living in a hotel for 5 days after our stuff is packed but before Dave can sign out, I am looking forward to having plenty of time to clean the house before the move out inspection. After going to the move out session at our community center, it doesn't look like it's going to be that bad. We have horizontal blinds that the kids have managed to destroy but they are switching to horizontal blinds and told us that as long as the blinds are still here, we won't have to pay for new ones (yea!). We have to wipe out all the cabinets and leave the drawers and doors open to make it easier for them to see that everything is cleaned out. The backyard needs to be mowed and everything in the house should get a wipe down. The trash cans have to be washed out - they do a sniff test! I'll use a carpet cleaner to make sure the carpets are as clean as possible and then we'll be done, I think.

I've found a little more info on the maternity ward at Madigan. I've been a little uneasy about the upcoming birth because my other three children were all delivered in the same hospital by the same doctors, even the same anesthesiologist! I loved that hospital - private rooms, catered food. Madigan doesn't have private rooms but the info I found seemed to say that as a C-section patient, I'll be getting first priority for a "private" room is there is one available. That just means I have to pray that they won't be really busy on the maternity floor so there will be a room that I can have to myself. If I can get my own room, I can have a support person stay overnight with me (namely my husband!). Otherwise, he'll have to go home to sleep because there will be nowhere for him to stay in a double room. I'll be in the hospital for 48-72 hours. The interesting part is going to be right after we get to Fort Lewis. I have to immediately go to the insurance office, and get our insurance switched from what we have now (which allows us to use civilian doctors) to Tricare prime. Then I have to go straight to the appointments area to get an appointment with a doctor. By the time we get to Washington I will be due for another checkup and be just weeks away from having the baby so there is no time to waste! As soon as we have a date set for the C-Section, we have to get tickets to fly my mom out so she can stay with the kids while I am in the hospital, and help out after we all come home.

Since we already have a house there, we are praying that everything will go smoothly, we'll be able to get our household goods delivered quickly, and the house set up in decent time so that we can breathe before the baby arrives. Life is about to get interesting! :-)