Relief: The trip is over. Mom has been returned to her home at Valley Terrace in White River Junction, VT. Ellyn and I now have the RV all to ourselves again. We can come and go as we wish, can stay up as late as we want, can sleep with the door open to our bedroom, and can regulate the temperature in the RV according to our wishes. I am not saying that Mom had made too many demands, but we needed to change our own behavior because she was our guest in the RV. Now we are "empty nesters" again.
Amazement: First, we are amazed that everything went much more smoothly than we thought they would. Mom traveled much better than we thought she would, was much more at home sleeping on our RV fold-out sofa than we feared she might, and the clean out of the house went quicker than we thought it would. We even were able to relax for one entire weekend and do some fun things instead of just working. Secondly, that we were able to get everything done and Mom back to VT about a week quicker than we expected. We have a week to relax now and travel in VT and NH before visiting the boys in Boston for the 4th weekend.
Sadness: We have to say bye to Mom now for the better part of a year. Of course, we will be able to stay in touch by phone and send her cards, but we will be traveling out west during the summer and will likely winter in the south west. She is ok with this and we have our lives to live but she is not getting any younger and we frankly don't know if we will have another chance to spend this much time with her.
The house is on the market in Grand Rapids and we are waiting to hear of any nibbles. There is one couple who seem serious but we have not heard anything about an offer yet. There is still that other shoe left to drop.
Friday, June 26, 2009
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