{"id":485,"date":"2010-11-23T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/11\/in-the-home-stretch.html"},"modified":"2010-11-23T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T04:31:00","slug":"in-the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/11\/in-the-home-stretch.html","title":{"rendered":"In the Home Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stealing this picture from Dave and <a href=\"http:\/\/vollmertrainblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/on-road-again-again.html\">his latest blog entry<\/a>. 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 assorted papers, liquids, and cleaning supplies.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be VERY cold tonight, so I have held off on loading my violin or my worm bin, both of which won&#8217;t do well for too long when it&#8217;s &lt;50F.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we will do the final packing while the boys are at school. &nbsp;Dave checks out of the base, I will turn in the cable box and turn off the cable\/Internet and then we&#8217;ll get the kids from school and hit the road.<\/p>\n<p>This is our first serious cold-season move, so we&#8217;re working with very limited daylight right now. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t want to do tag-team driving in the dark, so we&#8217;re trying to give ourselves enough time to get down to Overland Park, KS before dark (about 3 hours).<\/p>\n<p>My next post will be from on the road!<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/LHBPpBwL71XKMZMHrP-SMQ?feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/TOtHpeaTo3I\/AAAAAAABOB0\/WIL7bmJZGw4\/s800\/IMG_5125.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/20101111PCS2010?feat=embedwebsite\">2010 11 11 PCS2010<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[19,49,50],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-7P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":126,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/04\/stoopid-tired.html","url_meta":{"origin":485,"position":0},"title":"Stoopid Tired&#8230;","date":"27 April 08","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm stoopid tired again. It started with another yard sale this morning. 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