_ This is our last week in Shelby, NC, and so we’re furiously packing up our house. Although the rooms are a disaster, we still somehow managed to have company over, filling what little time is left with memories.

_ Our garage is also piling up with boxes, some waiting to be filled, others already packed. This doesn’t even count all the stuff already packed in our trailer.

It's a rough week, with obligations and hopes pulling us every direction: urgent needs like packing up, as well as work obligations, and then all the things we hope to get done, as well.