Mom and I ran away on MLK day - well, it was planned, so can that really be called "running away”?
I wanted to go to Cochran to drop off my stuff at the consignment store... and Mom wanted to get out of the house! I had planned on getting her at 9:30, but there was a wrinkle in my plan because I'm a nice 2nd mom (guess that should be 3rd). Liz's friend and my adopted daughter came through town after coming home from the Netherlands - she was over visiting her birth parents - ha! She and her boyfriend were coming through on their way to Tallahassee and stopped to visit with Liz. They went to dinner the night before and caught up... and then they spent the night. Well, Liz was leaving at 7:30 for her trip to Boston (first TDY for this new adult job) - so she left Clair and Ian asleep at the house.
Well, I woke them up at 8:30 to ask them if they wanted to go to breakfast - do you see the plan here? Get them up and moving, feed them and get them out the door. Well, apparently 1/2 the town thought Waffle House was the place to go on this day too... we got there just as the rush had hit - we were the tail end, so service was SLOW - unusual for WaHo!! AND they had a new server for us and he didn't call food in well, or fast. Sigh. Oh, well, we ate, headed home then the kids had to pack. I think I got to Mom's at 10:30.
We had a nice drive on the way to Cochran - mom got to look around - she can't do that normally as she's driving! I have learned that in my altered brain *I* can't look around and drive too anymore... I drive off the road... or all over the road - yikes!! But we made it there in one piece and dropped off all my stuff. The BIG box that was shown at the clean out was NOT picked up - well, for long. I made it to the kitchen and promptly put it down - it was pulling on my hernia - ouch! I put it down and grabbed two more smaller boxes to put it in and divided it by three to get it to the car! I loaded in three small boxes, the one big box, now 50% full, a bag of Butch's pants, and two bags of sheet sets (complete). Got that all dropped off and logged in. We then looked around the place and found NOTHING. Sigh. Drove off empty handed. We got about a block or 10 away when I remembered I had that wooden high chair in the back seat - crap!!! I turned around and dashed in to drop that off as well - no since ingoing all the way back home with it!! I'll get a smaller chair top one for the future as the wooden one was NOT convenient as it has no belt and was not too sturdy either.
So that done, we headed to the house again... there were many miscommunications on the way home and a lot of forgotten things... we had commented "we need to go by that on the way home" and forgot what it was...I finally remembered it when I got to Perry - it was checking on the construction on the Striplings store. They are coming along just fine and I noted it's the EXACT same plan as what they have in Warwick. I guess if you pay for a set of floor plans, you reuse it time and time again!
So, that done, I dropped mom at her house so she would fix Dad lunch and be there for the bug guy and the lawn mower drop off. Dad was sure happy to get his mower back!! Mom said as soon as he got it he hooked up his trailer and headed to the back 40 to collect pecans.
