Off To Denver

Posted Wed Nov 14, 2007 in Family

No, not me — Older Son and DiL left yesterday morning (early) departing for Denver, Colorado. After six months in Nevada, they decided that Denver is a better place for them.

So, the last couple of weeks were a whirlwind of busy-ness. We decided to rent a storage unit to clear some of our stuff from the garage for the winter. The time to do that was NOW so the kids could stow some of their stuff there in anticipation of a spring move. They’ll room with friends for the winter, then the plan is to jointly rent a house, Older Son will return here, and we’ll load a U-Haul truck with the remainder of their things.

We got their stuff moved to the storage unit last weekend. Now we have room in the garage to stage our cartons. We’ll go through them, sorting and decided what to store, what to unpack, and what to discard/donate. I have boxes of journal papers in the garage, collected over my career. I’ve been moving some of that material to PDF (nice little scanner) and cataloging them in a bibtex database. I will continue that effort over the winter.

I have boxes of books too — some I’ll keep and others will sell or donate. I reduced the number of books in my collection substantially before I left Lubbock last winter. I think I can cull a few more. But, I’m going to be more careful now. I want to be sure I keep those that will be useful for the remainder of my engineering career handy. Some of those texts will be hard to find now, like many of the technical reports I have in my possession.

But, I strayed from my topic. It was hard to send off the kids, but necessary. It is time for them to establish themselves independent of us. I made some bad decisions the last few years that allowed them to become too dependent on us. That’s not healthy for them and I’m sorry I allowed that to happen. They’re both smart and capable and they’ll do fine. They just need to prove it for themselves.

Just like Wife and I had to. It’s part of life.