December 2023 December felt hectic this year. Our plans were constantly changing and everything felt uncertain right up until the moment it happened. We were hurriedly trying to finish clearing out our stuff to get down to the allowed amount that we could take with us to Sweden. Initially, we didn't know that the company would pay for movers to come and pack up all of our things, so we thought that's pretty much how I'd be spending every second of the day after my teaching position ended. We also thought we would have a packed up, bare bones house for Christmas so we talked about spending the holiday somewhere on our way out of the US. As I said things were constantly changing, and once we learned that we didn't need to pack ourselves, we realized we could decorate for Christmas, spend it somewhere and still have time to come back home, and that things could be normal-ish for longer than we realized. Thank goodness! I don't think Andrew or I really understood just ...