One of the most difficult times I had when I moved my family into a new home was the fact that we were too unorganized.
We had a hard enough time loading everything from our last place into the truck and the trailer we rented. Then we had to unload everything into the new house after a long drive. We just put all the boxes in the different rooms and set up the mattresses so we didn’t have to sleep on the floor. We just wanted to take things one step at a time. Unfortunately, it was almost winter when we moved and we had to start using the heating system. The heating system was working great, but I didn’t realize that the thermostat was low on battery life! It wasn’t until we got to the Thanksgiving holiday when the batteries died. I felt it getting really cold in the house and I checked the thermostat. I thought I could easily just change out the batteries, but I couldn’t find any batteries! I looked everywhere and I was out of luck. I ended up going to look for a store where I could buy batteries, but everything was closed for the holiday, including local gas stations! I couldn’t believe my luck. What made things worse was that it was raining at night and I ended up getting lost. I was thankful that I at least had my heating system to keep me warm, but I felt like I had failed my family because they were freezing all because I couldn’t get any batteries for the thermostat. First thing in the morning, I went to the gas station and got batteries and everybody was happy when the heating system was working again.