Wow, what a long day today was. We spent most of the day in the hay field helping Daddy, then we were off to Hubby’s Grandmas to finish moving the rest of her stuff out. We were supposed to have her completely moved out this weekend, but the woman has a ton of crap to move. She has to completely be out by the end of the day tomorrow, so my father-in-law took off work to help my mother-in-law finish up.

There isn’t much left to move though. After we finished with hay we borrowed Daddy’s Dodge 2500 long bed to move all the furniture. That was a huge help. We were able to move all the furniture to storage in one load versus 3 or 4 loads with my father-in-law’s little s-10.

We finally finished up our day around 8:30, so we jumped in the pool for a bit to cool off before heading home.  Then I had to unpack the truck which felt like moving all over again.

I ended up with a lot of stuff I need to go through now. I’ve got boxes piled up in my office with a small trail cut out to walk to my computer. The indoor lighting in this house sucks, so I’m going to wait ’til tomorrow to sort through it all.  Bubba’s sitting in the doorway to my office right now whining because he can’t get through to sleep in his favorite spot.  I might have to do some rearranging.

Grandma told my sister-in-law and I to split all her kitchen stuff. The woman is the queen of cheesecakes, so my SIL and I both ended up with a ton of baking stuff. I got an awesome springform pan which is nice since I almost spent $25 on one a couple nights ago.

I also got a ton of baking dishes, cookie sheets, mixing bowls, and the little cupcake and cake pans in various shapes and characters. She also gave me a set of Christmas plates to replace my old ones. Somebody cough cough Hubby put mine in the dishwasher which ruined them. They weren’t dishwasher safe, and the gold edge work came off.

Grandma also gave Hubby and I a ton of linens that are brand new.  She had a closet full of sheet sets, comforters, towels, etc that she bought and basically hoarded.   I’m very thankful for those because I’ve been slowly throwing out towels and sheets we can’t use anymore.  We’ve been in limited supply, to the point where I’m washing towels every other day until I could afford to buy more.  All of our current sheets are mostly wedding gifts that have finally seen their last day, and are now full of holes.

I have mixed emotions right now. It sucks that Grandma can’t live on her own anymore.  It sucks even more that she’s parting with all her stuff.  In a way I feel bad about taking it, but then I see how happy it makes her to still have some control in what goes where.  It makes her face light up to sit down with us girls making lists of the things she wants us to have.

She was so happy to be able to give Hubby a clock he’s loved since his childhood.  The clock belonged to his Mommom who passed away a few years ago.  Mommom gave the clock to Grandma when she visited one year and fell in love with it.  Now she’s passed it on to Hubby, and he knows when he looks at that clock he’s looking at a piece of both of his Grandmas.

I guess all we can do is take it one day at a time now.  We’ve got to be thankful for each day she has left with us, and we need to make the most out of it.