Blessings in disguise?

We all know how stressful packing and moving can be. And when you have to decide what it going into storage and what is coming with, it is even more so. (Add in 3 kids and an extremely sleep-deprived wife, and well, I'll leave that to your imagination.)

So sometimes, instead of getting upset about things, it is easier to find the "blessing in disguise" and move on.

This is the freezer. Earlier this week it was full of food. And I have been stressing about using the food up as we will only have a small freezer attached to the fridge at the new house. Usually when we move we end up giving away hundreds (not exaggerating, it is a big freezer) of dollars worth of food away. I was DETERMINED not to do that this time. This time we had 6 weeks warning, and we were going to use the food up.

Or maybe, the door was going to get left open for a few days and everything would melt and have to be thrown away and solve my problems.

No, I wasn't thrilled throwing out 2 30 gallon outdoor trash bags full of food, but it eliminated a stress for me!

(And I was able to save a few things, and able to get it all into the kitchen freezer. This one is bigger than the new one, but we should be able to use up some of it and take the rest!)

Then, last night some heavy storms came through.

And some high winds today. SUPPOSEDLY, the wind gust were only going to hit 21 MPH. I promise you it was AT LEAST 70. I have never seen gusts like that before. And Bryan and I were lucky enough to watch our table literally take flight and then, well, crash land.

Notice the glass top came off the bottom, which is upside-down, and the chair is through the middle of the glass top that is no longer full of glass. And we all know how much I like to clean up broken glass...

And about 2 minutes later, as we are still gawking at the table, another huge gust comes and takes the grill.
Bryan believes that the grill is salvageable, though it did look like a line of some sort broke. And hopefully we can just buy a new table of similar size once we get where we are going.
Like I said...less to move and store!