Wow, it has been a long time since I have written here. Things got rather hectic preparing for Christmas and then having the moving truck come straight away. We had a rather uneventful Christmas season which was enjoyable. After the candle light service at church on Christmas Eve we went to a friends house and had a nice time visiting. Christmas was fun as expected :), had a white Christmas and the kids loved their gifts. The Christmas tree went to the curb by the 27th and we rushed to finish the packing and inventory sheets before the truck arrived with the moving trailer on the 29th. Thanks to the help of a handful of wonderful people we managed to get the trailer packed by the end of the third day and had room to spare! Jr finished the B4 forms from all the stuff we listed and brought in, we were very detailed trying to list everything in the boxes and the value of each item or group. The trailer was picked up the next day and it was nice to see our stuff finally on its way.
From here on out it was time to clean (ugh!). I stuck mainly to the kitchen and the floors while Jr worked on the windows, walls and bathrooms. The stove took me 2 days thanks to using Easy Off which proved very hard to get off lol. I ended up taking the bottom out to get all the run off that went down the cracks. The fridge took a couple hours, I oiled all the cupboards/drawers and wiped them down inside, bleached the counters and dishwasher.... Somewhere between kitchen and floors I ran to get drinks at the Dollar General and picked up a cheap sponge mop to wax with. I prefer to be more detailed with a good hand wax but it was going to be daylight before we left the house so I needed to work faster. Well, about the second stroke the sponge fell off my $1.50 mop lol. Jr fixed it and it lasted most the wax and by the end of the wax I was on my hands and knees finishing up. Needless to say we were there till Monday morning.
After running to base to get medical records and let Jr finish up last minute details (we were so unprepared) we made it back to the house for inspection. I slept through most of the morning out of sheer exhaustion. Jr said we did good, passed the inspection and were officially out of the house. We went out to eat with our friends to say goodbye and celebrate passing inspection that evening.
We drove out Tuesday after we got the car repacked and ran some errands we headed out about 4pm and made it to Monroe, MI where we stayed at the Red Roof Inn with our pets. Then after a few more hours of city driving we made it to THE BORDER! Ahhh.. we finally made it!!! The moment of truth, will we make it across??? How long will we be stuck??? Turns out only about an hour and things went fairly smoothly. What we worried most about, the B4 forms, weren't even important because Jr was on Military orders. They still stamped all the forms but had said they didn't really need them.
Turns out if you are born in Canada you are a citizen no matter what and your kids are also considered citizens... go figure, didn't even need those passports. I guess I have just never considered myself Canadian since I was raised in Texas. That made for interesting conversation... "Just what makes you think you aren't Canadian?".... Hahahahaha
We made it to the ABF place in Brampton ON and after driving around a couple hours we found a Motel 6 and stayed there for the night. The next day we took care of our business in Brampton, got a great cup of coffee and hit the road. Made it to North Bay just before dusk and found our motel off the main road. We moved in lol. I was disappointed in our room but just glad to be here.
Currently we are still at the motel, been a little over a week. We have been searching for a rent house non-stop but are still looking for that perfect place. There are about 80 offering ads and 90 want ads making it hard to find a good place here. We are hoping to be out of here soon. Thanks to the critters we are not able to get the suite, putting us all in one room.
