the weekend is over. finally.

after work on friday, all of us met at mom's house to help her move. we got started with a few things, stopped for a pizza dinner, then got back to work and loaded up the truck. got it to b&g's and went home and crashed. sat morning we were back at b&g's at 8am for breakfast. then we unloaded the truck, went back to mom's and loaded it back up again with the rest of her stuff.

we headed back up to b&g's with the final load and left mom there to hand off the key to the buyer. we'd pretty much just gotten in the door when mom called. her car broke down. so i headed out the door and right back down to mom's. as i was driving down there, roadside assistance was able to help her get the car out of park so when i arrived i just followed her to the volkswagen place where she dropped it off, i transferred all her stuff to my car, and we took off. they're going to look at her car today to see what the problem is.

when we got back up to b&g's, mom had to take the truck back. she tried calling the u-haul place but no one would answer so she had to take it to the next place further away. by the time she got there she was turning in the truck 30 minutes late and was going to be charged, but told the u-haul lady that she tried turning it in at the other place but no one was there. the lady told her that for some reason that happens quite frequently and so didn't charge us. yay!

we were all so exhausted that we just sorta laid around after that. bubba opened his presents, we had cake and margaritas, watched some movies, and then my dot and i left a little after 10.

after church we were supposed to go to chuck e. cheese for bubba's birfday celebration, but he had been up all night throwing up (and was backed up. ewww!) so we just had tuna salads and hung out for the afternoon. then my dot and i came home and i packed up buh's office stuff outta my front room while my dot mowed the yard.

hopefully someday this week we can take down the desk and take it with the boxes over to b&g's so they can set up their office and we can have that room for furniture that is sitting in our hallway!

it's been a slow process - the putting back together the house, plus adding my dot's stuff. but we are getting there bit by bit. just having the furniture in the correct rooms will be a nice change. we're so tired of having to step around stuff and not get to really move in and feel like we have a home. but with getting buh's office stuff out and having the garage sale this weekend, it's going to make a big difference.

plus! after this week, i'll be home a little bit more as this is my last week at the bank. no more commute to dallas, no more getting up at 5:30, ahem, ok 6am!, no more coming home and not getting to recharge before seeing my dot. i think that's probably going to make a bigger difference than anything else!!

my dot deserves to see me at my best. hopefully soon he will see what that looks like. because i sure haven't been there the last few months!

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an observation that is never meant as a compliment: you look tired this morning.

a conversation between the two boys moving my mom (after the pizza). after working hard and being tired and punchy, this was, up to that point in my life, probably the funniest thing i'd ever heard:

boy 1: did you just fart?
boy 2: no. i burped.
boy 1: are you sure?