Living in daybreak

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On this Memorial Day we didn't have a Memorial Day party this year because we were too busy packing for our trip.

Throughout that week we completed packing our house successfully. It took a lot of work, but by Sunday evening we finished packing it all into the rooms that will not be impacted by the add on.

Friday last week the kids were invited to a sleep over at Grandma Poulson's house. They had food and fun and cousins over, and that is a recipe for a good time with them.  Either intentionally or not this aided the packing efforts, since having no kids is good for getting work done.

Sunday night we went over to Grandma Julie's house in order to move there while the worst of the building is going to be taking place on our house. Mike has a place to work from in their house and they're allowing us to live in the basement. Grandma Julie and Grandpa Craig will be gone for a few of the weeks so we'll be taking care of the house for them while they're gone. 

Rocket is with us - he has to live in their courtyard, which is probably better than living with a dog sitter, however, he does whine daily for attention, so he will be happy when we are back at home.

Jell-O, on the other hand, was left with a cat sitter, so hopefully he has fun there. It is fortunate that we live in a day where we can find some totally random person on the Internet to watch our cat for us for a month with no pre-notice.

Anyway, we have mostly been trying to get used to staying in a new place this week, so we haven't done much that was interesting. We really appreciate being able to stay here, however, since it kept us from having to try to find some other place to be for the time period. 

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