Moving Day

So I spent about 3 hours yesterday doing nothing but lugging boxes up to the THIRD floor of the new apartment that my daughter and son-in-law are moving into this weekend and so why am I putting this under the category of Summer Fun?

Well, because in spite of all the work, it actually WAS fun! I was exhausted, tired and the back of my calves are SORE from walking up and down the stairs, but it was such a good feeling when we were done! Valerie was able to carry about three boxes for every two that I carried, but seeing as how I'm 35 years older than she is, I didn't think that was too bad.

The entire day was nice! We met for breakfast at Panera Bread. Valerie, Hans, Myron (Valerie's father), Sherry (his new girlfriend) and me. Sherry does a lot of volunteer work for Sgt Santa so she was able to provide Valerie & Hans with a Sgt Santa truck for the move. It was so cute! It felt as though Santa was bringing all of those things to us. Hans had to leave to go to work, but his moving job was today when he and 2 of his co-workers had to move all of the heavy furniture. They got everything moved except for the piano, and the decision was made for some professional movers to deal with it.


And speaking of Sherry, today was the first time that I had met her and I really liked her. I already was liking how nice she was being to Valerie, but now I like her for herself. She was actually someone Myron had dated in high school and they met again just a few months ago. The prior girlfriend that Myron had was always jealous of Valerie, which I had always thought was rather stupid of her, but I chalked part of it up to the fact that she had never had children.


Anyway, when Valerie and I finished unloading the boxes, I had to rush to my appointment with her friend, Jessica, who is a massage student and I was one of her practice clients. Poor me, to have to suffer through a massage after working hard all morning. :) Jessica did a wonderful job and she was so very professional too. Before I left for the massage, Valerie was teasing me and saying, "Are you sure you don't want to give your massage appointment to me?" And I replied, as any loving mother would, "Not a chance!"


Afterwards, I stopped off at Ukrops for their wonderful salad bar and then I drove to the storage unit that Valerie and Hans had and helped Valerie load a large mirror into the van. And then, I met Valerie and Hans for dinner at Arbys. So all in all it was a VERY nice day! Which is why I put it under the label of "Summer Fun!"