We're really committed now!

They have started packing our sealift order and it's going through on our credit card. I've never put over $8,000 on a credit card in one shot. But we're really going to Iqaluit now... That's where all our food will be in October!

It's getting a little nerve racking for me now. Everything is becoming very real; that we're moving pretty darn far away for two years (which ought to fly by); that we have lots to do - and that there isn't much time left to do it; that we have tough decisions to make without a lot of information about exactly what we need to take. The house hasn't sold yet; I don't know if that's because our agent has been away or if it's for other reasons. It's only been two weeks (right?) but it's really dragging in that department. Once we have a possession date, a lot of our other questions can be answered, like when the car has to start its trip, what the movers will move, where we will be living - that kind of stuff.

And I thought the biggest problem was beer and pizza

Remember when the only things you needed to move were a friend/relative with a truck, boxes from the liquor store, and friends you could bribe with beer and pizza? We have now been in the process (and it is a process!) of moving for, oh.... about 10 days now. I have a 1-inch binder filled to capacity with paper. And it all relates to moving. What's taxable, what's not. What's reimbursable, what's not. Which papers do we have to fax to whom, and when. It's all a little difficult to process when you still don't actually know how your car is getting from here to Iqaluit. And when it will get there. And when does it have to leave here? Even our relocation "consultant" didn't think driving it to Montreal with 2 kids sounded like much fun!

I emailed the marche we are doing the sealift through about when the cutoff dates for orders are. I got a very prompt and casual reply that we have this week and next week to place our oder and that it should arrive in Iqaluit around October 6. So we have a couple more days to determine how much KD and toilet paper we need. No sweat!

Liam is still using pens to turn himself into a tiger. They go "RRRRRRR", by the way. And Logan loves Brown Bear, Brown Bear just so he can say "Duck" very enthusiastically when we turn the page. He did notice tonight all the animals in the book that have tails, while Liam and I were reading about Squirrel Nutkin and his bushy tail.

I'm off to make a note to buy a bigger binder....