Last post for a while
After tomorrow morning, we won't have internet access for maybe a week.
Packing is getting there. I'm stuck because I'm out of packing tape, so I can't even put a box together to pack until Leo comes home with more tape. I should have put several boxes together when I realized I was getting low. We may be up past midnight finishing up, and then there will still be a few things in the morning (all the toiletries we'll need to use to shower, breakfast things, random miscellany that we forgot the night before.) But when my dad gets here at 9, I'm out of here with him and the kids to the new house, and anything left I'll have to trust Leo can deal with!
Audrey's strep test was negative, so no one else bothered getting checked. The doc did give her an antibiotic, and even though I usually am one to wait and see, chances are if she DOES need it and I give it to her (which I have), she'll be well enough to start school at the new place on Monday.
Audrey was fairly disappointed to have missed her last day at her old school. I went in to leave a forwarding address so we could collect our prorated book rent, check on lunch money funds (we timed that just right...she was at $0 with nothing owed), and return a school book to her teacher and clean out her desk. Her teacher and the principal both hugged me (HUGGED me!), and Audrey's classmates ALL said to tell her good-bye. The principal wrote down our new address because she had meant to give her a little note telling her good-bye and wishing her well, but did not have a chance. Her teacher was planning on having punch and cookies to send her off! The school has been so good to us, starting last year when the principal was so helpful in getting Audrey into kindergarten despite her birthday being just past the cutoff date (see March 19 or so, 2005 for that post). I was actually fighting tears when I walked out of the building. OK, yes, I'm pregnant and hormonal, but I've been trying hard not to think of all the reasons I'll miss this town and even this house.
Not the least of which is the fact that this is the last night I'll spend in the house, the very ROOM, where both of my children were born.
Packing is getting there. I'm stuck because I'm out of packing tape, so I can't even put a box together to pack until Leo comes home with more tape. I should have put several boxes together when I realized I was getting low. We may be up past midnight finishing up, and then there will still be a few things in the morning (all the toiletries we'll need to use to shower, breakfast things, random miscellany that we forgot the night before.) But when my dad gets here at 9, I'm out of here with him and the kids to the new house, and anything left I'll have to trust Leo can deal with!
Audrey's strep test was negative, so no one else bothered getting checked. The doc did give her an antibiotic, and even though I usually am one to wait and see, chances are if she DOES need it and I give it to her (which I have), she'll be well enough to start school at the new place on Monday.
Audrey was fairly disappointed to have missed her last day at her old school. I went in to leave a forwarding address so we could collect our prorated book rent, check on lunch money funds (we timed that just right...she was at $0 with nothing owed), and return a school book to her teacher and clean out her desk. Her teacher and the principal both hugged me (HUGGED me!), and Audrey's classmates ALL said to tell her good-bye. The principal wrote down our new address because she had meant to give her a little note telling her good-bye and wishing her well, but did not have a chance. Her teacher was planning on having punch and cookies to send her off! The school has been so good to us, starting last year when the principal was so helpful in getting Audrey into kindergarten despite her birthday being just past the cutoff date (see March 19 or so, 2005 for that post). I was actually fighting tears when I walked out of the building. OK, yes, I'm pregnant and hormonal, but I've been trying hard not to think of all the reasons I'll miss this town and even this house.
Not the least of which is the fact that this is the last night I'll spend in the house, the very ROOM, where both of my children were born.
posted by Andrea | 10:35 PM
3 Comments:
Good luck with the move! Looking for to hearing from you when you're reconnected.
That's looking *forward*, of course. I shouldn't comment on Saturdays when I'm working (my fingers just get too tired to type properly).
I can only imagine the emotions you have with moving out of the house where your children were born. I moved out of the house where my children were conceived and that was hard enough! But you'll have great new moments in the new house and wonderful memories of the old.
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