Packing with Britanny

You don’t pack with a baby, you throw stuff in the nearest box as quickly as you can because you know that in a few minutes your ticking time bomb will start screaming for your attention. Seriously, ours screams bloody murder.. for everything. Britanny screams for attention, for joy, for food, for playtime, for bath-time, for tears, etc. Needless to say, getting ready for our move has been a trial in and of itself. On a good day I can get 2 full boxes packed before the waterworks start- and on a bad one, I might be able to build the box before I get called away. That might be OK if I only had a few boxes to pack, but it feels as though the pile of boxes in the apartment is never ending.
That being said, I am a pro packer. I challenge anyone to try and pack better than me with a baby attached to their front. I am one with my Baby-Go (it is like a Snuggi). Its not easy to pack a box with a kicking baby glued to you. If you bring something too close to yourself, it will either be promptly kicked to the ground or grabbed by the “death grip”. Either way, you’ve got a fair amount of work trying to get your box packed.
I thought cooking with one hand was an impressive skill to claim (one that all mothers must master if they ever want to eat), but packing with one hand takes it to a whole new level! There should be a one-handed Olympics, in which mothers of all ages participate in one-handed activities. The list of “games” would probably include the following: cooking dinner; getting dressed; doing and folding laundry; working on the laptop (for work, school or otherwise); and obviously, packing boxes. I am certain that these would be as entertaining as the current Olympics- if you doubt me, go try and butter a bagel with one hand tied behind your back. Its not as easy as it looks!
I rest my case. Babies and boxes go together as much as dog sled races and the Bahamas. In other words, they don’t! So take pity on the next mother trying to pack up her place and giver her a hand. Because then there would be at least 2 hands helping out!