{"id":70,"date":"2008-02-12T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/02\/seeing-the-world-through-im-moving-soon-colored-glasses.html"},"modified":"2013-01-07T22:13:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T03:13:43","slug":"seeing-the-world-through-im-moving-soon-colored-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/02\/seeing-the-world-through-im-moving-soon-colored-glasses.html","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the World Through "I’m Moving Soon"-Colored Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As most of my loyal readers know, the Vollmer family has a move coming up. Dave has orders to Offutt AFB, Nebraska<\/a>, and this week he got the first batch of paperwork verifying things. He had to select what date we want to leave North Carolina…and that resulted in a lot of discussion. It turns out the public schools in Bellevue, NE start on AUGUST 12th<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What???<\/p>\n

Who wants to start school that early??? I remember being flabbergasted at how early the kids started in Brevard County, FL, when Dave and I were stationed at Patrick AFB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, for some reason, it’s VERY important to me that if Jake has a chance to start school on the first day of school, he does so. After all, we’re talking about Kindergarten — the most important day of his life…<\/p>\n

…well, thus far.<\/p>\n

The point is, Jake will have enough other things to worry about with our move…having to single him out as the “new kid” a week after Kindergarten starts? I don’t think that’s cool.<\/p>\n

So I convinced Dave to put “August 7th” as the date we’re leaving NC. Yes, it’ll be a fast trip to NE, but for Jake, I think if we can get him into the school routine as soon as he arrives, things will be good for him. The sooner he’ll make friends, establish a routine, and he won’t have to sit around bored while the furniture is being delivered.<\/p>\n

Also, the upcoming move has had me looking at everything in my house so I can mentally label it “Should it stay or should it go?” Many things are illegal for the movers to take: candles, lightbulbs, liquids of any kind. Which means if we really want to take it along, we have to find room in our van or car.<\/p>\n

This weekend I took a look under my bathroom sink and saw so many Bath and Body Works, Body Shop, and other pretty-smelling lotions, eaus, and body splashes. I thought to myself, “I can’t take all of it with me.”<\/p>\n

Infant toys, magazines, clothes that are too small\/out of style, pantry foods that I bought then changed my mind about preparing: need to get it squared away before July!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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