Yes, this is the view from my parents’ back deck!!!
I’m packing up the contents of our hotel room in Cary, and the computer will be towards the end of the things to pack up, after all, it sits at the top of the pile of crap in our van, so we have to get the books, toys, house closing paperwork, uniforms, oh, and did I mention toys?
We’re leaving at noon, after picking the boys up from Vacation Bible School.
You’ll next hear from us from West Virginia, and this evening I’m hoping to upload the many photographs we took of 5-nights-in-a-row of goodbye dinners with friends.
As my sister recently taught me: (((HUG)))
We’ll miss you!
Dave and I finally had a chance to work out the final routing…follow the pale blue line heading north, then west out of central NC.
We are stopping in Martinsburg, WV, Wright-Patterson AFB (near Dayton, OH), Scott AFB (near St. Louis), before ending our journey at Offutt AFB (near Omaha, NE). We leave this Wednesday and will take a week before we’re in Omaha on July 30th. But it’s really only 4 days of driving. We’re visiting friends and family during the week…
We moved out of our Apex, NC house and into a local suite hotel on Sunday, and this morning signed the closing papers. So we’re officially “homeless”. We’re also officially no longer homeowners and for once we don’t mind one bit!
Many thanks to the Warlicks, Goldmans, Bucklers, Hongs, Babas and Currivans for their wonderful hospitality and comraderie over the past several days. Thanks also to Susan Hagel for making the drive down to Apex this past weekend even though our house was EMPTY! Thanks to the Switzers up the street for letting us use their air mattresses and taking our kitchenette set off our hands. Thanks to the Waterford Woods Bunco Ladies for the restaurant gift cards and for letting me win Bunco for the first time last Thursday night!
The boys have certainly enjoyed their playdates, and Dave and I have enjoyed getting to spend our last days here with our friends and neighbors.
(Did that just sound like we’re on Death Row or something? Sorry!)
Don’t fret! We have our new house in Bellevue, NE ready for us to go into on August 1st, and Dave already arranged for the “Big Orange Truck” to come by on the 4th to deliver the goods.
Today Dave turned in his office keys and submitted his forwarding address to his department at NCSU and he’s officially finished there…last Friday he signed out of the Air Force base that manages his paperwork (technically, he was stationed at NC State, but there are no base services there). This morning Dave and I took some time to browse options for framing his diploma when he receives it in August.
We have some assorted errands to run before we head out, settling some paperwork at our church, getting one last haircut from my hairdresser, Lanie, all the while keeping the boys occupied with VBS and one last trip to the pool with their friends.
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Has this ever happened to you?
You’re driving down the highway enjoying your tunes…in this case, “Dancing Queen” by Abba. I’m singing along at the top of my lungs…it’s one of my favorite songs, after all!
You’re in the left lane on the highway and you look at the car in the right lane next to you, and the lady in the car next to you is singing along, too!
I was listening to 93.9, Kiss FM at the time. I guess the lady in the Mercedes next to me was, too 🙂
It brought a smile to my face!
The washers and dryers here are ENORMOUS!!!
A week’s worth of laundry for a family of 4 all fit into ONE washer!
I’ve divided the clothes among 3 dryers to save a little time.
“Why the new look, Major Mom?”
Many of you have known of my quest to find a blog layout that took advantage of the space on the left AND right sides. As much as I enjoyed the color schemes in the previous layout, enough was enough.
When Dave started putting together his new train blog, he was exploring the Blogspot layouts and came across several layouts that included a “stretch” variation.
So I reached out and grabbed one of those. There’s a little bit that I still need to get used to, and once I have my desktop computer back in a couple weeks (our goal is a 1-2 August delivery in Nebraska), I can pretty things up a little more.
I like the ability to make my pictures appear a little bigger, and hopefully you don’t have to scroll as much to read my pontifications… 😀
Okay, if you’re a USAF Safety Officer, stop reading!
I drilled at Shaw AFB this past Sunday and Monday. I left the office at about 4pm and drove east from the base, behind a cold front that brought thunderstorms to the base about an hour earlier.
So I was behind the line of thunderstorms driving out of town and saw this beautiful cloud. I photographed it through my front windshield with my phone and then e-mailed it to my blog.
Yes, I was driving while I did it, but I didn’t have to type anything more than “v”, the first character of the e-mail address that sends the pic to the blog.
This cloud is GORGEOUS and I had to share it with the world.
Today was the last drive I’d be making between Shaw AFB and the Raleigh area, so today I took a more scenic route that didn’t seem to add more than a couple minutes to my trip. It was nice to drive past the cotton, corn and tobacco fields. The variety was certainly nicer than what I’ll be seeing in Nebraska!
Welcome home!!
Many of you already know that we are intending to live in our nearly empty house for the next week or so…
But as you can see in the picture, it really isn’t so bad. We held on to our small TV/DVD combo unit, our Direct TV DVR reciever, and our Wii. All that stuff is sitting on a lightweight aluminum camping table. This week we let Jake buy Lego Star Wars, The Complete Saga for Wii and he’s really been enjoying it.
You can also see the small camping chair next to Jacob…that’s Timmy’s.
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