Gantt Charts and all things logical!

As I write, we have 6 spreadsheets open, 2 word documents, 4 emails, 3 computers and our youngest daughter is busy practicing Facetime with her grandparents!  What did we do before technology!  How did missionaries manage I wonder 50 years ago?

I must admit, I do like a list.  I was once told to always start every list the same way with the first item as follows:

1. Write a list!

This way, I can cross the first item off straight away.  Good tip!

The problem with our gantt chart (fancy name for a list!) is that it has 124 items on it and I keep adding to them every day.  So as soon as I get the satisfaction of crossing something off, I add another 5 things.  Take for example the car (the one we have left!)  As I was taking it to the garage to fix the wing mirror (1 problem) that Ken had broken several months ago, I managed to hit a (very beautiful) Cotswold stone wall and cause a (not so beautiful) scrape and dent (2 problems!) on the back! One step forward and 2 steps back has never been so real in my life.

But this has been an important week so far for crossing off some of our big items on our gantt chart!  We have got the kids into a school which is great and they are excited about their new school life in Nairobi.  We have fixed a day for our garage sale to sell our house contents.  Shipping companies have quoted for moving our belongings. We've organised our filing cabinet.  We have fixed our day to move to Kenya.  Our local church have organised a farewell service.  And we have people coming over tonight to help us clear our loft!

- it's just a shame not all of these were on our gantt chart!