One of the best advertisements I’ve seen for a moving company.

Needless to say we reached this age a loooong time ago.

The last time we officially had friends help move us was back in 2003 (from our first house to our second house—a mile away and we didn’t have much stuff yet.)Tom actually moved most of it on a borrowed trailer and then our realtor helped unload a bunch of stuff.

I’m very thankful that through all our years in the military they paid for all of our moves. I can’t imagine doing it on our own.

Anna found this related graphic.

“You won’t believe the bathroom!”

Tom just went to turn off lights to go to bed and he came out saying OH MY GOD. YOU WON’T BELIEVE THE BATHROOM.

I knew Katie had been in there last and could only imagine. Her M.O. is toilet paper scraps on the floor, unflushed toilet, and band-aid wrappers. I told him he’d have to make her clean it in the morning.

He just told me I had to go look. This is what I found.

We’re down to the final hours.

Or picking up the kids from two weeks of grandparent camp. Which happens today. In a few hours.

Don’t get me wrong. I love my children dearly. But I absolutely do not miss them while they’re gone for these two weeks. Aside from the fact I know they’re having a great time with their grandparents and making awesome memories…our house is soooo quiet and there’s no whining or arguing or drama or asking for snacks and I don’t have to do any parenting, which we all know is mentally exhausting.

FYI Tom says he misses them the whole time. I say it’s because he wasn’t the only one home with them for their entire lives (minus this past Covid timeline).

Tom’s senior moment

We were vacuum sealing hamburger to put in the freezer and I was writing the date on them like I always do: 8/21

After completing a few, Tom looks at me totally serious and says OH MAN.

Me: What?

Him: We forgot our anniversary.

Me: Um. no we didn’t. It’s the 18th.

It then dawns on him I’m writing the year, not the day—August 2021.

I’m so glad we can laugh at and with each other!