Packing

It's weird to be in the position again of deciding what's worth moving. Earlier this week at work a co-worker started making a list of all the things she wants when we leave. All are electronic items which she knows we can't take with us. The past two years have just flown by. I easily remember sitting in our Madison apartment making decisions about what to bring with us here.

Today as I packed for our upcoming trip to France, I decided to start sorting through our clothes. I tried on everything that had made it's way to the back to the closet and filled an entire trash bag with clothes that neither of us wears. It's so much easier to do it now then just before the move because I also remember frantically sorting through clothes in late June 2006, with my brother making multiple trips to Goodwill for us.

Another reason it's important to start making decisions now about what we'll take back to the U.S. because our first suitcase full will go with Chris in April for his Atlanta trip (his parents are meeting him there) just two weeks after we return from France. We'll be able to move quite a bit home considering Chris' trip in April, our visit home in May and then the eventual move home in July.