final festivities

We're leaving on Wednesday. For serious. Naturally, I feel entirely unprepared, even though we've been getting ready for this move for months now.

Joy came up this weekend for a final, sisters-only playdate. (Of course, Grace's Scott was around, and was a terribly good sport: THANKS, SCOTT!  =) We all went out karaoke-ing last night and didn't get home until around 2:30...so feelin' a little rough today. But a fantastic time was had by all, and I hear there may   be some videos of our amazing performances knocking around on Grace's camera. These reports are unconfirmed, however, so don't get your hopes up.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it's kinda heartbreaking when your immediate family FINALLY all lives within driving distance of each other--not since 1997 has this been the case!--and you decide to up and leave the continent for colder, wetter, and generally drearier climes.  To make the guilt worse, Scott begins his first commute back to Los Alamos this week, so ALL of us are bailing out on Grace at the same time. Welcome to Denver, sis! Hope you like it here, 'cause it's all yours. I sincerely feel like the worst big sister ever, but I guess on the up side, everyone now has a free place to stay whenever they're in our neck of the woods. (Riiiiiiiiight. That makes up for it all!)

Stay tuned, folks: more uplifting accounts of our adventures to come...