Ahh, another day of saying good bye, encouraging my son to hug someone goodbye, and then not leaving! At this point (and please, if I said goodbye to you today, do not read this as a personal thing, but as my own fatigue), I am ready to be done with goodbye and ready for the open road ahead.
After getting the blue cubes dismissed at around 5:30 pm, we lacked the energy and will to leave, so we sorted out places to sleep (we are renting out our house semi-furnished, so while there's no beds, there is a very old fold out couch with metal bars and a few other padded surfaces to sleep on) and went to Austin Grill for our standard non-Takoma Park celebratory dinner (we'd said good bye to Mark's and Savory already). I actually had a margarita despite having been awake at that point for 36 hours (thanks to Savory, our local coffee shop, for those 6 excellent double mochas). And sadly, we have one more task - we are renting our house out semi-furnished, but we have to remove all our detritus that wasn't even worth moving (or was too fragile to risk moving) up to the attic or for stuff that can be risked with water or mold into the basement. I think after I collapsed and the kids collapsed, my beloved life partner stayed up somehow and sorted the house into "stuff that we should try to squeeze into the Prius" and "stuff to be crammed into the attic." At least there were lines of masking tape at waist height and neatly arranged piles of stuff here and there.
I have high hopes that Day 3 will see us actually leave, especially as I finally got the official paperwork for the new job yesterday, or at least a fascimile of it. That was quite a fun thing - we were packing, signing up for schools, etc., and still hadn't gotten the formal offer letter. I knew the people in the new company, and they would reassure me from time to time, and I tried hard not to be a Washington, DC, bureaucratic type and insist on the paperwork before committing to anything, but I was very relieved to get the fax. Especially since the real driver on the schedule is that I remember very well how excellent it is to change to a new school after school has started, and we did not want the kids to have to do that.
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