We arrived home last night after a horribly long drive. It occurred to me as we were down to the last four hours that the reason it was so long... is that we had started in FLORIDA..... I guess I hadn't considered that we were so far from home.
Another thing I had not considered is that home wouldn't feel like home anymore. Coleen felt it too. In fact she couldn't manage to sleep in her room. She came downstairs crying that her room was to high up (2nd floor) and that she wasn't used to having a floor. She missed her cozy little room/bed on the Glass Slipper and her stuffed animals. She wanted to go back.
My sister who is house sitting for us, had changed just enough things around that it now feels more like her house than mine. I had quite a few tears about it this morning, but then realized that this has all worked out well - and it's time to put the house up for sale. It's time to start getting rid of things too - so we're going to start by having a garage sale next weekend. Now - I totally hate garage sales -- but I guess it's part of the process so I'l
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Coleen and I are departing late this afternoon for the long car ride home. We've taken this opportunity to sort through all our storage bins and weed out all the things we don't really need. There's quite a bit of work involved in getting the boat ready to sit idle for a couple of weeks - so of course I have a checklist :-) I feel comfortable leaving the boat here as I'm sure our liveaboard next door neighbor will keep an eye on her. It was a very stressful work day that started early. So around 4 p.m. we threw a few things together and headed to the beach for a picnic supper and swim. The water was pretty calm - no big waves this time, but it was beautiful. Coleen made friends with a dog and they played Frisbee. We saw lots of dolphins jumping high in the distance - and an amazing sunset. We are headed home for a short visit tomorrow afternoon and should arrive some time on Saturday. It was a great Mother's Day weekend. We spent most of Saturday running errands since this is the last weekend we'll have a car. I really don't like to shop but we had a list of necessities and powered our way through. The Boater's World is going out of business and we managed to get a new harness for Coleen ($9) and a Maptek chart kit covering the Keys and entire East coast of Florida ($60). I also went to Home Depot and got some things to make a bug screen from the companionway. So far we haven't been bothered too much - but I'm sure the time is coming. I took Coleen to see the Hannah Montana movie after lunch - and was she ever excited. She still hasn't stopped talking about it :-) We had lunch at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville. The food was very good and they even had complimentary mimosas for the mommies. The margaritas weren't bad either :-) We took one for the road and headed back to the beach. Coleen and I played in the surf for hours. The water was clear, warm and the waves were huge. I finally got exhausted and she thankfully found some children to play with while I rested. |
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