Licensed to Travel

Had to be home to sign for a Fed Ex package today. It was our Visas!
Now visas are a tricky thing.
First Tom applied for his. It required a letter of sponsorship from SCAD (to prove he had a job over there), passport numbers, passport pictures, copies of our banking history (to prove we could afford to live there) and who knows what else. Next we had to wait until we were in the "window" (you can not apply too soon or too late). Sarah, Madison, and I all needed to basically go through the same steps. This time Tom is our sponsor, but all the other hoops had to be repeated. And voila!, four weeks later we receive these little stickers to put in our passports.
While I am on my third passport in the last twenty three years (each one gets a little more hideous), this is my first visa. I hope that our girls are getting as excited as we are.

Moving Sweet Tee

After about four hours of orientation and about fifty flights of stairs, the embroidery business has been transferred to our Alabama counterparts. Of course how do you move it? Cleverly hidden in a giant BAMA red pick up with bungees and rope all over! What were we thinking?

Hope the contents and the paint job made it all the way to Huntsville and good luck to our siblings as they try re-assembling everything on the other end!

Where did all the time go?

Tom left yesterday.

I am now sitting down to catch my breath and catch up on my friends' blog sites. Has it really been six weeks since I picked a color? The good news is the house has been prepped, the shop is packed, and Sweet Tee is unplugged today. I am really in shock that what has been all talk for a year is now really happening.

Yes, I will probably paint some more; and there are more things to sell (or dispose of) around the house. But, for the first time in a long time, I am looking forward to some quality time with the girls, my sister, and a few long lost friends. I am only torn between savoring the next couple months, and hurrying up to be with the hubby.