Packing Up and Unpacking the Boxes

Princess blanket and pillow please

 For a two year old who is lacking in mobility and vocalization, she is sure to get her point across as she motions and points.
Emily is a very smart little 2 and a half year old even with no words.
As I understand through other parents with speech delayed children, some  form a few words, but like with Emily, loose them again.
However, as the packing began, Emily made sure of it that she was right in the middle of everything.
Directing traffic if you would like!
So dramatic, with her hand motions and gestures, but she too wanted to make sure that we were picking up and packing everything!
As she peered over the chesterfield, with her hand waving in the air, pick up this and that and don't forget this or that especially her blanket princess and pillow.
As everything was pretty well packed and ready to go, glitches in the ointment always make for interesting bedfellows.
For a few hours there anyway, it looked as if we might have been  with nowhere to go after the apartment informed us that the manager that had interviewed us and who took all of our paperwork was fired and the interim manager had no knowledge of our intention to move in!
But after everything was said and done, and a few dozen phone calls later, everything was worked out to be fine in the end.
Let's say, with even a passing thought of us having had ordered a moving truck, wit our belongings being loaded onto that truck, new tenants taking over our old suite in a matter of hours and then being told that we might now have thre intended suite for upwards of three days later...
I don't know what scared me the most the idea of the four of us having to hunker down on a park bench...because just the moving and storage costs alone would be something we could not bare!
Just having the safety and security of knowing that everything was going to work itself out in the end as worth its weight in gold!
Having bent a few feathers along the way, it was something I have no regrets in doing because in the end Emily would have the space she needed to open her wings and fly or be placed in her walker and have the ability for the first time in her life, to walk into her place of residence and have the ability, if she so chooses to wander her domain in an upright position and not just shimmy crawling on the floor..