Loved You Then, Love You Still, Always Have & Always Will : Our first PCS as a family

May 16, 2018

We are PCSing from New Bern, North Carolina to Houston, Texas. We have known for a few months that we were moving and it just came up so quickly. Before the movers got here we had a bag packed for us and all the things we didn't want them to take in one area of the room. We took down all the picture frames and anything else that was on the walls. We tried to make it very simple for them and just put everything that was in the closets out on the floor so they knew exactly what they needed to box up. John even used a good Pinterest idea and had a different color tape for different boxes so when the movers came with all of our stuff they knew which room to put the boxes in. They movers said they liked it.

It took two days for them to move our stuff out. The first day was just putting everything into boxes and the second day was dismantling the couch, cribs and beds and putting everything into the moving truck. Both days it took the movers all day to do it.

The only main concern I had with the move was my breast milk. I have saved enough for two months worth of feedings and didn't want it go to waste. Luckily, Johns parents gave us a cooler that held all 1600oz of breast milk. It made it all the way with not one oz lost!!!!

There were some hick-ups, like the moving company we picked to take two of our vehicles didn't realize he had to pick them up on that specific date and didn't have a truck in the area to get them. He said he could have someone come the next day, but we wouldn't be there. Fortunately, we knew that John had to go back to NC for a few weeks while we were in TX, so we had some time to get the cars moved. This time we really researched the company to pick up the vehicle and called them constantly to make sure they new the day we had to have the cars picked up and made sure there was a driver for it.

Even then, that was a hassle. The driver that was suppose to pick up the cars didn't pick them up on the day he was suppose to. Apparently, they had scheduled him to do too many pick ups in the short amount of time. Long story short, we got the cars to TX, but it wasn't as easy as it was the first time from FL to NC. I did tell John that next time, we aren't going to be shipping the cars. Waayyyy too much of a hassle.

The move for us went very smoothly. It took us three days to get from NC to TX. We stopped in Atlanta and Baton Rouge for the night. We really wished we could have made it more of a vacation trip, but since we had dogs it made it really hard to find hotels and with the check out times it was hard. The girls behaved so well, better than I thought. The two nights we got to the hotels we didn't get in until 2/3am and when we had to wake them up they thought it was party time :) Once we arrived in TX the girls really didn't want to go back into the car. I think they though we were going to keep on traveling.