A Step-by-Step Guide: Volume 4

How to pack a truck for a 1,600 mile moving adventure

Step 1: Pack your stuff.

Step 2: Pick up your fairly large moving truck. Let a certain someone run up and down the ramp about 40 times.

 Step 3: Spend a good portion of the day loading the truck. Be grateful all day for sunny skies.

Step 4: When you get this to spot in the process, stand back and realize, "hmm, it's not all going to fit." Make arrangements to go pick up a moving trailer to pull behind the truck.

 Step 5: Take a break and congratulate yourself on an efficiently packed truck.

Step 6: Turn around and look in the garage. Realize you really aren't done and all of these crazy things have to fit in the moving trailer. Make a mental note not to save chairs for last the next time you move.

Step 7: Stand back and look at the start of your moving caravan. Realize your whole life is in that truck.

 Step 8: Play with a certain someone in the rocks one more time.

 Step 9: Say goodbye to Uncle Craig.

Step 10: Take a family portrait on the front porch and bid a fond farewell to your wonderful home.

Step 11: Get yourself to Nebraska!