This move just got real!

The movers are at our house right now, taking our unaccompanied baggage.

(ignore the bulk trash pickup in this picture)

Every overseas military move involves three different shipments:

• unaccompanied baggage(UB): a small, fast shipment of necessities you will need as soon as possible in your new home.
• Household Goods (HHG): Everything else you will be sending to your new location. This is the shipment that will have our furniture.
• Non-temporary Storage: all the things you will not be taking to your new location

We stayed up late last night in order to finish off sorting out the things that would be taken in our UB. For anyone who is interested (or might someday find it helpful), here is a quick list of the things we sent. 

• our extra clothes that won't be packed in our suitcases. This includes our fall clothes in case the weather cools before we get our HHG.
• extra shoes, again anything we wouldn't be packing
• kitchen items: half of our pots and pans, our plastic dishes that the kids use (we kept the stoneware dishes to go in HHG), silverware and serving spoons, a spatula, paper towels, dish clothes, sponges, a few mixing bowls, two baking dishes (one small one medium sized), a few of our cutco knives
• sewing machine (in case I need to make some curtains or something for our new place) and sewing box
• board games
• extra blankets, sheets and towels
• my iMac (so sad, I miss it already)
• a folding table
• folding chairs
• a fan
• our printer
• Baby Caleb's crib (it will be interesting to see how he does in the pack n' play, I'm very nervous about it)
• our restaurant style high chair, we plan on ditching the regular high chair since our dining area will be so small
• TOYS! I kept a few sets of toys to pack in our suitcases. Gotta have toys.
• wastebaskets
• the kids' bikes
• Professional Items - books (they don't count towards our weight limit but they get shipped with UB)

I was a little worried that I had been overzealous with the unaccompanied baggage. In fact I was sitting around all morning stressing about whether or not it was too much stuff. Seeing it all in boxes made me feel a lot better. That's not so many boxes.

Tomorrow we head off to Colorado for our last visit with family!

UPDATE: Our UB weighed in at 1135 lbs, well under our 1475 lb limit. Yay!