You-Haul

Things I had forgotten about moving:

• Stuff multiplies - give or throw away 10 things, start feeling good about the progress you've made, then turn around and discover that, while your back was turned, the 3 shoe boxes of old photos from summer camp and science fair have reproduced the following illegitimate offspring: a pile of scrapbooks, a handful of elementary school track and field medals, and a stack of mysteriously unlabeled three-and-half-inch-floppy-disks.
• Once the boxes are packed and out of the house, you are only about 60% through the moving out process.
• You can never have enough newspaper on hand.
• What appears to be a stack of way too many boxes will, strangely, turn out to be far too few for the job.
• There is no good, safe, place to store a 3'x3' framed piece of of artwork for 3 months.
• Grandma B's china has been through this many times before, and it will probably survive one more move without requiring air-ride transport, a dedicated security detail, and a private storage vault.
• A person who pursues the greener grass on the other side of the fence with such frequency has no right whine about how difficult it might be to get to the other side of said fence.

Something new I've learned with this move:

• A girl who marries a boy who has a penchant for hanging pictures with excessive amounts of super-adherent-double-sided-tape should make sure that that same boy is around when it is time to remove those pictures.
• Sunny Sweeney provides motivational background music for efficient packing.