Selling and moving can be quite traumatic as well as quite rewarding. Especially to grandparents in their early eighties.
We still love Portsmouth and New Boston, Ohio and have loved our home on Illinois Ave. in Westerville, OH as well. We sold our home and moved into the State Street Condominiums October 31, 2014.
The trauma was packing so many boxes from Aug 5, the day the Columbus break between summer session and fall semester at Columbus State Community College began until our move four months later. First box packing was the selection of truckloads for auction.
Secondly, I began packing (I am a terrible pack rat like my deceased dad, Forest Earl Kegley) for items to move to our new - seven years old condo home. The most traumatic packing was of my office and my garage.
My sons, Jay and Jeff, would have rented a dumpster and hired someone to empty the house and fill the dumpster(s). I and Jeanie did most of it ourselves, thank God, except for the last week of moving preparation. Wonderful friends, Carole Estep and Judi Cole, in addition to my sister Sandy and son Jeff and wife Suzy, and Jay and wife, Terri, pitched in and got us moved by 9 pm Thursday, October 31. Our sons paid the movers. Thanks boys, friends, and family. After two weeks tomorrow, we are still looking for things we need and searching the boxes for keepers or throw-aways.
My advice to all grandparents,who have sufficient health, is to do most of it yourselves rather than cause your dear ones the added trauma to their busy lives. Don't wait until your eighties. A friend advises that we will unpack boxes for six months and after that we will miss many things we got rid of.
This condo complex is managed by Kim Ousley, sister-in-law to John Shumate, the designer and builder of this of this very high quality and innovatively built complex. Kim is of the highest quality as a person and manager of the building for the seven years of its' existence.
Traumatic? More than I imagined Aug 5. But the load was lifted from Jeanie and me November 1. God blessed us once again. Through Jesus Christ, His Son, we are saved and not fearing death, although we would enjoy a few more years together to live here in the greatest land on God's green earth.
Thanks for reading!
SamKat
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