Category Archives: Relocating

How times have changed…

At the risk of sounding like an 80 year old man,  I have a little something to say about how easy today’s kids have it. I grew up in Ohio. We didn’t get huge amounts of snow, but there were … Continue reading

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Everywhere

We are being overtaken. We can’t do much to stop it. We’ve heard there are ways to take care of them, but really, we are at their mercy. Everywhere we turn, they are there. The kids scream that they are … Continue reading

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Past Post Parade – August 2008

Elaine at The Miss Elaine-ous Life is holding a pretty cool parade this week. All I had to do was go back to an old August post and repost it. When I first started cycling through posts, I had completely … Continue reading

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Where’s my weather machine??

Alright. When we first started talking about moving to Maryland, we took a lot of things into consideration… Being far (or further) away from family… Uprooting Jake and Emma… Higher cost of living… It never even occurred to us to … Continue reading

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Unfinished business

Do you guys have those little projects sitting around that you need to get to?  You know, the ones that you think will take 400 years to do but then they end up taking like 10 minutes and you wonder … Continue reading

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At least we can laugh!

I cannot believe that this is even still going on. We have lived in this house (and subsequently had our current phone number) for nearly 18 months now. And we are still getting debt collection calls for Ms. Dottie Bolman. … Continue reading

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Tales from the tundra

I don’t know if all ya’ll have heard, but we’ve gotten some snow around these parts.  One storm on Saturday and Sunday dumped about 30 inches and then another storm on Tuesday night and Wednesday dumped another 20 or so … Continue reading

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A few choice comments…a few things learned

This past weekend, we made the 11+ hour trip from Home Sweet Home to Dave’s folks in Illinois.  Round trip, we are looking at nearly 24 hours of the 4 of us either in a car, in a rest stop, … Continue reading

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Another first!

Tomorrow, we are headed to Illinois. While this isn’t the first time we’ve been to Illinois since we’ve moved to Maryland, it IS the first time we’ve driven straight there without breaking up the trip. We usually stop in Ohio…6 … Continue reading

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One Year

One year ago today, the moving truck showed up at the house. They unloaded everything from that house and put it into this house. Very few things were lost. Our first meal in this house was McDonald’s…eaten while we sat … Continue reading

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