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Old Routine

We're having snow flurries today. Taylor is hoping it will really snow. I took the boys to school this morning, and we have only three more days to do that. We are all so ready to live closer to the schools. It has been so worth it to do what we did, but it's taking it's toll.

This morning the three of us pile in the car at 7 AM (Ellyn stayed home in bed, sleeping a little longer because she's working two different jobs today) and headed off to school. Before we arrived at the middle school, Taylor had fallen asleep in the back seat. I dropped Dustin off and then drove over to the house to wait there for a while and read my book. After a while Taylor woke up, so we drove over to the grocery store just down the street to buy a few donuts. We drove over to his school's parking lot and ate those. I finally say goodbye to him at 8:40 AM and arrive back home around 9 AM.

That's been our morning routine for the past three months. And, we repeat that in the afternoon, picking up Dustin first and waiting an hour for Taylor. So that is four hours of time and almost 36 miles of driving daily that we won't have to do any more once we are in the new house. Bottom line is that the boys are getting to stay in the same school all year long, and we see that as a very good thing.

This ends up being a big week for us. We have an appointment with the title company on Wednesday to take care of financing. Ellyn flies out to her aunt's wedding in Portland on Thursday. So if we don't get all the signatures done on Wednesday, I'll be getting power of attorney to take care of whatever I need to on Friday. Friday will be the final walk through. I also anticipate the building getting the certificate of occupancy that day, which is key because the lender won't fund until we get that. If all that goes smoothly, I'll be moving over there on Saturday. We've been blessed because there are a couple families from church and also Ellyn's cousin who will be helping us move. Ellyn will arrive home on Sunday afternoon, and we'll spend next week settling in.

Dustin and Taylor are looking forward to living close to school. They both will be about a half mile from school. Taylor plans to ride his bike every day. We'll see what he thinks about that when it's freezing outside! At least he'll get to sleep in an hour later every morning. Dustin won't get to sleep much more than he does now, but at least he won't have to wait in the car for an hour in the afternoons.

Posted by David at November 29, 2005 10:43 AM