Mom and Dad are moving

Significantly less pictures today ... Mom is tired, and the more tired Mom gets, the harder it is for her to make decisions or remember details.  She also had a rough day emotionally.  In my short time as part of your family, I have come to learn that Mom lives for her kids and Dad lives for Mom.  Because Mom feels so strongly that things are not settled for Scott, she has a difficult time some/most days accepting this move.  Today was one of those days.  She easily flowed from being excited at the prospect of not having to worry about cooking/doing dishes to refusing to move anywhere unless Scott goes with them.  I am discovering that it can be difficult to sort a lifetime of personal possessions when the emotional fluctuation is that dramatic.  Tomorrow, I get to spend more time with Dad (I'm heading into his office ... I was hoping to get there today, but I helped with paperwork for Spring Gardens instead), so we will see how that goes.  I also...

Today seemed to have less progress than other days.  Mom is still doing well, but tomorrow will be my first day working with Mom without having Jon or Laurie there to help.  Laurie spent a couple hours this morning scrubbing the natural gas grill that will stay with the house, and I am grateful for her willingness to do that.  All of the cabinets in the living room are now empty, and Laurie, Mom, and I worked for a bit in Mom and Dad's room.  My hope is to finish their room and the office tomorrow and to move on to upstairs on Wednesday. Before we get started on boxes, I thought I would share something fun (or at least I think it's fun) I stumbled across today.  Jon says there is supposed to be another five generation picture with Susie as the baby, and I truly hope I come across that picture during this process.  I am taking all of the pictures home with me to organize them and put some of them into albums for Mom and Dad, picture collages for Mom and ...