Head....explode.... soon....

For someone who likes to plan and have things planned - this new development in our life has me in a tizzy. Seriously.

I think my head might explode.

These are our problems. We have 2 drivers to drive 2 vehicles across the country. I am one of those drivers which means I'm not really one of those drivers. I'm not comfortable driving a 26 ft moving van - nor am I ready to drive 40+ hours without a real break - with three kids in the car - including one that needs to nurse on a regular basis. With both of us driving 8-12 hour days - that doesn't leave one of us to watch the kids while the other one gets some rest at night. We'll both need rest. One night of one of the kids not cooperating with bedtime leaves us with an exhausted driver. Let's just say that's not a good idea. We'd also need a storage unit since our rental won't be available until the beginning of August - and that means another move.

We could use the funds from the sale of our home to pay the price to have someone else drive our stuff out (that we pack) for us. The problem here is that we don't know when the house will sell so we don't know when we'd see our stuff. This would pose another problem in that we're hoping to get into our rental house the middle of August - so we'd need somethings. like furniture and pans and clothes for cool weather. We could ship a small amount of these things there in boxes and borrow furniture - but that could be a rough 30-90-120 days.

Our other option is also not highly feasible since it requires Dan taking even more time off of his new job for moving. That would be for all of us to drive out there in 3 weeks - then after our vacation at Camp at the lake - he could fly back here and load up a van and drive it to Maine. The shortest amount of time he could do this in is 5 days - 1 1/2 days for travel out and packing up and loading and then 3 days for driving and 1/2 day for unloading again.

So - what we need is an extra $2k or a person without a job that is a responsible driver or babysitter. Know anyone???? Any ideas??? Oh yeah - that person also has to want to spend 4 days in a van with 3 kids and a dog. Not looking good? Ohhh come on - you can fly to Phoenix - have a mini vacation - and then get to enjoy the East Coast as well. You could maybe even see the world's biggest ball of twine on the way - or some such damned thing.

Come on..... don't ya wanna????