Has anyone ever had a “successful move”? If so please reach out to me because I have yet to hear about an instance where someone has spoken positively about their moving experience. I’ve only moved once as an adult, and I went from my parent’s home with just my clothes and a few dishes, to my first apartment that I needed to furnish. Hardly a “move”, seeing as I just had to pack my car with 4 or 5 bags of clothes and my body, and just begin living where I am now.

I have been hoping to move for the past year, and now that it is finally happening, I am overcome with anxiety. I’ve had 2 months’ notice, and even though that is plenty of time, some days I feel like there is too much to pack, clean, paint and fix and not enough time to get it done. Other days, I wish the move-in date could come sooner because I just want it all over with. Don’t get me wrong, I love my current place and I’m actually quite sad to move on, but once I got the confirmation that I’ve secured the new apartment, I just wanted to get this process all over with. Kind of like “ripping off a band aid”, but more so “quickly and swiftly dragging all my furniture out of it’s home”.

Now that I’ve begun packing, I’m slowly realizing I have more crap than I originally thought. I’ve donated and purged a lot of my possessions in the past year as I’ve led up to this point. I think the part that gives me the most anxiety is ensuring that my current apartment is left in a proper enough state for my deposit to not be compromised, and then cleaning and painting my new apartment to my standards. I kind of have high standards for cleanliness and a little bit of OCD for having things in a certain way, which definitely add to the pressure of getting this new place ready to go. All this, plus making sure my toddler can smoothly transition into her new room, makes me anxious. We leave for an over-seas vacation shortly after the move, and I worry that all the changes to her sleeping quarters will affect her –otherwise amazing- sleeping pattern.

Wish me luck y’all!