Packing

We have been packing all day Saturday. Bonnie has been packing all day Saturday. A great aspect of this trip I am really looking forward to is that my kids’ elementary school requires all students to wear uniforms. This should cut down on the clothes they will wear, but we are still packing 21 sets of the following for each child: underwear, pants, short sleeve shirts, long sleeve shirts, 7 shorts, two sweat shirts, a jacket, a raincoat, a swimming towel, a set of rain boots, tennis shoes, sandals, water shoes, swimsuit, and two formal outfits for church.

Getting each child to cooperate in choosing these items is insane. My poor wife has been corralling them all day, and I have been yelling at them all day. Other items we are packing is our instapot, rice cooker, large pot, steamer, electric tea kettle, mobile printer, mobile scanner, laptop (for my office). My wife did NOT want me to take this photo of her.

She has been packing all day long. Luckily for us, her sister came over around 7pm (I doubt we will get to bed before 1am. Her and her sister are masters of Tetris. The trick however is to make sure each bag does not weigh more than 55 lbs. The first bag we packed weighed 78. I don’t know how we are going to do this. The below bag is holding our precious instapot. I swear the first time I used it to make artichokes, that it conjures actual magic.

we were able to pack the kids Saturday. Hopefully we pack ourselves today.

Three days to go.