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PUTTING THE MOVES ON AUGUST

8/23/2017

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Four on the floor -- Sam, Ben, Allison and (out of photo range) Brian prepare to hoist Ben's HEAVY sofa up the stairs and into his new apartment. Yep, it's August in Cronkland.
If it’s August, we might be moving someone somewhere.

I figure from 2005 until now, we’ve relocated one or the other of our two sons 10 times. I could be off one or two moves, but who’s counting?

There were the college moves, then the apartment ones, and one into Sam and Allison’s home -- all in the eighth month of the year. The hottest month of the year.

Last August no one moved as Ben decided he’d do one more year where he was. A reprieve!
But then came summer 2017 and plans to find a different apartment. What’s different this time is that there’s no roomie. It’s his own place.

We put in a long day over the weekend, blessed with older son, Sam and wife Allison helping with the heavy lifting. There were a variety of challenges, as there are for all moves, but this one had a warm-up round of lugging Ben’s incredibly heavy loveseat up the stairs and pivoting into his new apartment.

Then the moment of truth came when the even heavier couch went up. It took a couple of tries before the four of them gave it the air time it needed to clear the railings and make it upstairs. Things looked almost too scary for me to even watch, but finally it arrived to the second floor with furniture, railing and people all intact. Thank you, Lord! Things were certainly looking iffy for a while there.

The guys are already talking about having some of their Thursday-night football gatherings at Ben’s place. Even though he’s been out of the nest for a while, this move feels like a new start in a new way.

Of course, Brian and I have had our own share of summer moves. The only times we’ve ever moved, in fact, were once in June and the other times in July. Plenty of heat and sweat to go around then, too.

What about you? What months did you move? Have you moved your share of kids into new digs in August?
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Debbie M. link
9/1/2017 08:17:34 am

That picture shows how precarious it was to move the couch! I am always amazed how much stuff can be crammed into an apartment. Hopefully, we are done with moves for a long time, now that both our sons have bought their first house!

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Donna Cronk
9/1/2017 09:00:23 am

Yes, and beautiful homes they have too!

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