zen motherhood

This is more of a side story to my last post. I like tangents but this one was too long to include. I alluded a few times to a suitcase I couldn't part with which was labeled Office. I was pretty excited about this little gem, but it became the subject of every joke along our journey. It was comprised of all the basic office items that I thought we would need while 'en route': envelopes and stamps, pens, batteries, chargers, paper, a mini scanner, a mobile printer, and of course a small whiteboard.  As you can guess it was a little heavy and I was questioned on multiple occasions if this suitcase was really necessary. We could just as easily locate an office supply store or use the hotel business center right? Part of my reasons were to avoid this scramble to find a place to print out something or copy an important doc while we spent time on the road and due to covid many business centers were not even open anymore.   As we hauled everything into the trailer the first night

Getting ready for Barbados, probably the easiest thing about it, I thought, was going to be packing. A moving company would be coming in to do the boxing up of all of our things.  So I figured my job would be throwing some stuff in suitcases, labeling some stuff for packing. Bam. Done. So I quickly organized our belongings into 4 main categories of items (because we can't just throw stuff around willy nilly now can we?):  1) Donate- I had to put a big orange sign on these things that said DONATE but it felt good to shed some old stuff. 2) Denver - at the end of our Barbados expedition our plan is still to wind up in Denver, so I put a big green sign on these items that would be put in long term storage in Denver labeled of course - DENVER. 3) Barbados Ship- not everything can fit in suitcases so I even designated a room that I labeled with one big blue sign BARBADOS!!! 4) Barbados Pack- we would schlep this stuff on our flight/road trip so no labels for this stuff. I just started t