I’m back from Nebraska, the trip was pretty good. Uneventful…I feel relatively caught up on my Air Force Reserve life now. I’m looking forward to investigating some full-time AF work opportunities while I’m living in Colorado Springs. I learned through the grapevine that there’s quite a bit to do, I can’t wait to learn more … Read more
The reason I was inspired to post about that 1957 Air Force wife book last week was because I was thinking about getting some “calling cards” of my own. I’ve done this in the past, it’s great for trading playdate information on the playground. It’s also much classier than scrawling down your information on the … Read more
Howdy! It’s been a few days. I’m sure you’ve ALL been at the edge of your seat, spending all your time wondering, “How has Major Mom been with the move?” I’m sure you’ve been up all night worrying about me, right? Of course you have 😉 So we had our stuff delivered on Wednesday, December … Read more
First grocery shopping after moving into the new house. Hard to keep it to one cart. One of the symptoms of moving, is giving up a lot of the long-term items. In my case, things like ketchup, salad dressings, peanut butter and jelly and my stores of frozen foods. So today I replenished the stocks. … Read more
Today I learned one of the impacts of a mid-school-year move. This afternoon I ventured out for the school supplies the boys need for their new school. Their first day is tomorrow. Dave brought home the school supply list last month after he registered the boys for their new school. Whoa! Not only was the … Read more
We made it! We had a nice uneventful trip, with about 22 hours worth of driving spread over 4 days, 1200 miles, and 10 different states! This afternoon we went straight over to the house to empty out the trailer into the new house’s garage, although we aren’t officially moving in until Wednesday. More pictures … Read more
From 2010 11 11 PCS2010 I saw these at Target while I was shopping for gift cards for the boys’ teachers. CUTE! It’s a small Lego set that you get when you put money on the gift card! So I put $5 each on two of these and just now gave them to the boys … Read more
When you drive some of your belongings during a military move, you can file to have the government reimburse you at 95% of what the government would have had to pay a shipping company. To do this, you have to weigh your vehicles before and after loading. Here’s our completely loaded Pilot with trailer (the … Read more
I’m stealing this picture from Dave and his latest blog entry. Tonight we loaded up a U-Haul trailer with his model train layout. By leaving the legs up on the two parts of the layout, we have a plethora of space underneath that I found no problem filling with a couple dozen bankers boxes with … Read more
So here I am, sitting in an empty house. It took about 3 1/2 days, and it filled 2/3 of a 53′ trailer! But it’s done, and we now are living with a minimum of stuff in our house. Folks have been asking “Why aren’t you in the Transient Lodging (on base hotel, more or … Read more