pack it up

I am consumed by packing right now. I eat, sleep and breathe packing and still the progress is painfully slow. Yesterday I worked hard all day long and only got one measly box done. Why is this taking so long?

I will be so glad to close the front door of this house for the last time. The roof should have been fixed last summer already and now that rainy season is upon us once more each room has its own puddle to navigate. I've already packed up our best towels and we're using the threadbare ones which means I don't have any extra towels to sop up the leaks. Pails I have, but the water kind of seeps in through great sieves in the roof so pails don't help much. It's the wettest rainy season we've seen here yet so while we have the nuisance of water in the house, we also have beautiful green everywhere we look.

Like Scott said in his blog, it'll all be over soon. Kind of like facing hours of labour... as hard as it may be, at the very least it'll be over soon and then you can enjoy the new baby! Except I still have a couple of weeks of work to push through before I can rest. Right now I'm just sick of all of these material possessions and wonder why we can't just live with the bare essentials.