I've gotten into the habit of screening my phone calls. Leave a message and I will listen to it in between loads of laundry and return your call sometime when I'm on the road. But there are some people whose calls I pick up on the first ring. One is my sister. Some calls are facts-based only. Some are emotional and some are slap-your-knee funny. Since I'm the older sister, her call on my birthday was assumed to be wishing me well, you're THAT much older than me now, yada, yada. But the tone, was different. After that call, a quiet birthday dinner and discussion with Hubby M, followed by a "family meeting" with my sons . . . . My sister and her family moved into our house with three weeks notice.
We are merging termporarily into one house, that luckily can handle the load. We combine a toddler with teens. My boys now live with girls. In age range, we go from preschool to college. The two dogs have cat people sharing door duty and offering Milk bones. The Southerners have moved north, with their ten pairs of underwear each and snow gear that has seen one week of vacation skiing.
It promises to be an adventure worthy of a TLC reality show or a least a blog to keep us out of each other's hair.
Erin
Monday, December 13, 2010
So, how did we get here?
R and I have been vacationing here at my sister's for the last 16+ years. Not only does my sister live here in snowy Michigan, but so does my Aunt, Uncle and cousins, and my Mom is only 30 mins away in South Bend, IN. So every time we have come up to visit we stay with my sister and her family, some years up to 2 weeks at a time.
In the last few years we have talked about what it would be like to move up to this area closer to my family. Then this summer, R started a job search right in the middle of our summer trip to Erin's. There is one large company with their world headquarters right here just 10 miles away from her house. So, hey, why not add them to the list of companies where he should apply for jobs? Maybe it will work out. Well it did.
Things have moved along fast from there. He got the job offer and 3 weeks later we were in MI. It took R and I a lot of discussions and prayer to decided to ask Erin if we could live with them for an undetermined time period. At first we thought he and W would head up to MI and the girls and I would stay in VA till the house was either rented or sold. But we did not like the idea of our family being separated for an undetermined time period, and paying both rent and a mortgage was not an option. We figured all we could do was ask, and pray, if the answer was no, then we would go with the original plan. But then they said yes. Now this is an adventure.
Cara
In the last few years we have talked about what it would be like to move up to this area closer to my family. Then this summer, R started a job search right in the middle of our summer trip to Erin's. There is one large company with their world headquarters right here just 10 miles away from her house. So, hey, why not add them to the list of companies where he should apply for jobs? Maybe it will work out. Well it did.
Things have moved along fast from there. He got the job offer and 3 weeks later we were in MI. It took R and I a lot of discussions and prayer to decided to ask Erin if we could live with them for an undetermined time period. At first we thought he and W would head up to MI and the girls and I would stay in VA till the house was either rented or sold. But we did not like the idea of our family being separated for an undetermined time period, and paying both rent and a mortgage was not an option. We figured all we could do was ask, and pray, if the answer was no, then we would go with the original plan. But then they said yes. Now this is an adventure.
Cara
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