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
This fellow “Major Mom” is currently spending Thanksgiving at Camp Eggars, Afghanistan. She got to see her family via webcam thanks to the Today Show. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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
The movers are here — they’re packing up. It’s a slow start, since it took some time to bring in all the packing materials. One of the guys had just rolled in this morning from a delivery to Arkansas — so he’s nursing the cans of Rock Star while he packs. So far they seem … Read more
Okay, for me personally, it’s a day late and a dollar short…since we’re leaving in a week. I’m a huge Trader Joe’s fan! I can’t say exactly when I first went there. I know it was about 10 years ago and it was either the one in Commack, NY with my in-laws, or else in … Read more
Whether you knew of it as the APRS station DW3809 or as Wunderground Station KNEBELLE12, this afternoon we disassembled the weather station and will set it up in a couple weeks in Navarre, FL. I’m in the process of deleting our Wunderground tags from this blog and our Vollmer Family homepage. I hope you enjoyed … Read more