Checklist

Things checked off the checklist:

• House
  

• Flights (after a 2 hour struggle, talking on two different phones at the same time while simultaneously adding more minutes to my phone via internet)

• New glasses for Elvis and me (for a grand total of $150…see why we got them here before we left?)

• One sold car

• One car committed to be sold next week

• New license plates for car (don’t worry, that process wasn’t as easy as it sounds)

• Register for classes ("Intro to Urban Ministry" and "Mission to Children at Risk")
  

• Donate clothes

• Sell big furniture and nursery stuff (still needs to be picked up)

• Flights for mom and dad to spend Christmas/New Years in Pasadena (Hello Rose Bowl parade)!

• Arrange to cancel internet, etc

• Ash and Elvis dentist visits, cleanings, fillings (fillings at $10 a pop…see why we got them here before we left?)

To do:

• Find a job

• One more wedding this weekend

• Garage sale on Sunday

• Work until we can grab our Christmas bonuses and run (sometime between Dec. 12-15)!

• Christmas dinner at church on Sunday- in charge of desserts

• Take Suzy for 2 year check-up

• Take Suzy to the dentist for the first time

• Elvis’s bday on Dec. 14^th

• Elvis’s sister arrives from Mexico on Dec. 13^th

• Christmas presents? (Don’t be offended if you don’t get one this year…)

• Buy health insurance in the US

• Pack everything we own into 6 suitcases

• Get Elvis’s wisdom teeth out tomorrow (For $55/tooth, we had to take advantage before we left the country. How’s that for last minute? What? You say the dentist mentioned this 5 years ago? Oh….)

• Goodbyes ;-(

• Simultaneously cry our eyes out and do a happy dance
  

• Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc……………

So, that’s where we are….how are you?