Housewife, 54

                                     Please: Excuse the spacing... I give up on it! Well, that went well albeit exhausting! After my last post, packing began in earnest... or should I say frenzied?  It was so much harder to divide things into two households - a selection of things to leave for DH in his apartment, and everything else to go with me to our new home - and downsize at the same time.  When all was said and loaded, there were still things in the house that we did not have room for in either household and had not yet sold.  Poor hubby was also left with the task of doing the final cleaning, since I had to take off the next day to race out to the new home and prepare it for the delivery of furnishings. My trip out was uneventful, which I was very grateful for.  We were still under stress that the sale of the house would go through, and there were several things till needed to be done to our new home before I could truly settle in.  But the dogs and I zipped across 3 stat