I have made such good headway on packing: am feeling very happy with myself. I got all the non-clothes packed! Got my candy for my candy swap packaged and labelled, got all our toiletries and medicines packed (I think I have pretty much everything in there from Robaxicet to ginger gravol to yeast cream
. So if you have athlete's foot with a sore back and sour tummy, I'm your gal! Come see us down at cabin 7082 and I'll fix you right up!
We have 5 people and are bringing 4 suitcases and a roll-up garment bag. One suitcase is for Barcelona with all 5 of our clothes in it (so we don't have to open our other bags), one bag is assorted items and our formal and costume items, and two bags are mainly clothes for the cruise, with some of everybody's clothes mixed in. I figure the loss of any one suitcase and we'd be fine. Even if we had the same 3 outfits as when in Barcelona we'd like be ok (but threadbare by the end), or if the mixed bag got lost we'd have clothes but no stuff, or one of the clothes suitcases and we'd still have lots of clothes.
I also found, in amongst the MOUNTAIN of stuff ready to be packed more FE items I forgot to put in. So I put them in about half of mine. Then I found an additional item, so re-did the original bunch, then finished them off. I even spread out the FE stuff between two suitcases in case one case goes missing.
I pretty much have my purse packed, except the stuff from our safe and my everyday bag. I have little goody bags for each child for the flight with a bit of candy (Toy Story Pez Dispensers), some books, some drawing material and a few new toys/items to occupy/molify.
I even put my powdered laundry detergent in a clothes-only suitcase in case someone scans it and thinks it is something illicit: clothes are less likely to go missing than little items if a suitcase got inspected.
So I am feeling very organized and pleased, which is a far cry from how I was feeling this morning with all the packing ahead of me. I earned my little beverage!