animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

back to the new normal

After being in for a month, Jake went back to Virginia today. It was nice seeing him (and Amelia) for an extended length of time. Who knows if that will ever happen again? It was also nice having some company for dinner. And, I really hit it lucky having him …

jake visit

Jake had to come in for a work thing (something unavoidable that had been scheduled for a while, unfortunately for him). It was good to see him even though he’d only been gone a few weeks. We went to my parents’ for lunch on Sunday, worked on the puzzle a …

launched!

Yesterday, another successful adult was launched into the world. Jake moved to southern Virginia to be with his girlfriend, who is going to veterinary school down there. I helped him get packed this week and Brian hauled the U-Haul trailer down there with his truck yesterday. It was a sad …

the graduate

Jake is done with college! He didn’t go to graduation and didn’t want a party, so Brian and I took him out to dinner at Tap 814 last night to celebrate. He started working for us full-time today, but I don’t know how long that is going to last. His …

we did it! hooray!

I just paid for Jake’s final semester of school. He’ll be graduating in the spring without any student debt! There were a number of factors that allowed us to do this, but it was mostly us saving for college for the past 21 years and Jake commuting to school, rather …