Love is....a Packing Party!

Remember the cartoon with outlined bubbly people, doing nice things for each other? It would say 'Love is.....' and there would be a drawing of someone washing someone's dishes, or baking a cake or helping with homework, etc. etc. etc. I think the girl in the cartoon had fluffy pigtails, if I remember right, but it's been a LONG time ago. Still, it was a good cartoon strip.

About a week ago I realized I needed some big time help packing up the house. A friend of mine had made an offer, 'call me if you need some help'. Thinking it over, I realized the easy thing to do is be prideful and try to do it all yourself, never asking for help. The smart thing, the humble thing to do is yell out 'Help Please!'.

So I sent out an email letting a small group of very dear friends (and daughters) know that I was having a 'packing party' and was requesting (begging) they'd attend. Refreshments would be served, and ratty dress was suggested.

Here they are - Carol, Cathy, Robin, Karen and Leslie - who showed up and saved my life. We started by sitting around the kitchen in lawn chairs and whatever else we could find, eating Panera salad and sandwiches, then everyone worked upstairs in groups to keep it fun. Two hours later five bedrooms were packed and it was time for a snack break. Cookies and Reeces Peanut Butter Cups before they packed up the kitchen as a group.

Four hours later two floors of the house were packed, labeled and ready for the movers, and I was feeling less overwhelmed and very loved.

Love is .... friend who offer to help and really mean it. (Love is also me cutting off Carol's backside from one of these photos. I may need her help again and posting that would have killed any chances of it ever happening!)

Thank you sweet girlfriends (and daughter who is also a dear girlfriend. xoxo) You were a huge blessing to Don and me.