Well, we made it to VA. It has been a pretty crazy three weeks. This is the breakdown.
- Friday before Memorial Day, we drove to the boy’s mom’s house in Indiana, where we stayed for the night.
- Saturday, we woke up and drove to Ohio for the wedding of our token Air Force buddy. We stayed there until Tuesday.
- Tuesday, we drove to Michigan to stay with the boy’s grandparents for the night.
- Wednesday, it was back to Indiana to the boy’s mom’s.
- Friday, we went home to Kansas.
- Sunday, we had an open house, and at 6pm that evening, we left for Virginia with the great dane and three cats. We arrived in VA at 3pm the next afternoon.
- We stayed in VA until we flew back to Kansas on Wednesday. While we were in VA, we got an offer and sold our house.
- Friday morning, we drove to Oklahoma to see the boy’s family before we moved back to the east coast. We got home Sunday night.
- Monday and Tuesday, we hung out at our house in Kansas for a few days while we were getting ready for the movers.
- Packers came on Wednesday and Thursday, and the movers came on Friday.
- My wife also flew in from Belgium on Thursday. In one of those weird twists of Army-fate, she moved to Kansas (albeit Leavenworth instead of Riley) five days before we moved to VA. It was so wonderful to get to see her and her family over the weekend, though.
- Sunday, my mother and my brother flew in to help us drive to VA. The four of us and our boxer left in a Penske truck and my car around noon on Monday (our house closed at 1:30, so only owned it for an hour and a half when we moved), and we got here at midnight on Tuesday. We did stop overnight this time though. We moved 7,240 pounds of stuff ourselves.
- Thursday, my littlest brother graduated high school, so we had family and friends in town for that.
- Today is father’s day and my mother’s partner’s birthday.
- And tomorrow, the boy goes back to work for the first time in two years or so.
So, that is where I have been and what I have been up to. So far, we are here and getting settled into VA nicely, and I think we are eager to get settled into a routine soon. I will post pictures of our cute little summer place above my mother’s garage as soon as we get everything moved in completely.
Thanks for letting me share. It helps to write it down, so I don’t forget!
