Yesterday and Today (and a little tomorrow)

Yesterday was an okay day. M and I got a lot accomplished, despite the fact that the boys were off their damned rockers. They were just insanely bickering all day long, and yet they couldn’t stay more than 5 feet from each other.

I tried to get them to go outside to play, but they wouldn’t. They were out for all of about 15 minutes all day, until they used up all of their water balloons.

I know that this whole thing must really suck for them, and I’m trying my best to empathize with that. But the fact remains that M and I have so much to do (pack, clean, house hunt, etc.) that we have been more absent in our parenting these past two weeks than we ever are. Really, since the cabin. The boxes won’t pack themselves, though.

We’ve tried to include them and let them help us with the packing, but (I must be honest here) they are terrible at it. Anything they pack has to be repacked before the box can be sealed.

I am very close to finishing the basement. Yesterday I finished the corner by the sump pump and got the beer-making kit ready to sell (hopefully). About all that is left is the TV down there and my downstairs computer. I could probably end up getting rid of the downstairs computer. That whole setup was pretty much only for virtual teaching the first year and a half of the pandemic. Hopefully I’ll never have to go back to that, because it was an absolute nightmare; I worry that if I get rid of that computer that I’ll end up needing to use it again.

I exchanged texts with our realtor yesterday. 2 of the 3 properties we were going to see today have been removed from our list. One accepted an offer, the other had an offer put in higher than our budget will allow us to match. So today we’re driving all the way down there to see a single house. And this is pretty much it. We decided that this trip is the last one to look at other properties. If we don’t bid on something today, we will buy Grandpa’s house.

We are also dropping off the kids at my mom’s house. They will be there until Saturday, after the child-free wedding we are attending. We are going to use the next three days to pack the hell out of the house, distraction-free. Mostly.

I have a play date scheduled tomorrow with my best friend from my old school district to play X-Wing. Very excited about that, but also sad. From now on, for us to play will require an extended, overnight trip by one of us.

Might have to leave the dog with Mom. Our regular dogsitter hasn’t gotten back to us about Friday night. Nervous about that. I worry about her escaping. But a decision needs to be made by about 11:00 this morning, as that’s when we need to leave.