Change of plans

Aunt Di's post of earlier this morning inspired me to update the family on our change of plans.

Everything is moving along nicely here; I've got everything organized for the rummage sale (and have already presold $100 of stuff with two buyers!) and our house is getting emptier by the day as we move stuff to the pole barn.

Late Friday Scott asked me if I'd checked the Michigan Sex Offender registry to double check the neighborhood we're moving to in Midland. Well lo and behold, the next door neighbor was convicted of breaking and entering and rape back in the late 80s. Yeah, we aren't moving there. With Scott traveling as much as he does, that's just not going to happen. I'm moderately worried about Carolyn, but they have a high fence in between their properties and Dave and Sam are almost always home when she is, so there's not as much risk...me home alone almost constantly with two small and distracting children is too much for us to stomach.

Well, it just so happens that our next door neighbors have a duplex available less than a mile from here (which we found out about *after* we'd signed the lease on the Midland house) and it was still available when I called Karen frantically Friday evening. We took it sight unseen, and the landlord in Midland was very understanding about the situation and has released us from that lease. So, on May 8th, we'll be moving less than a mile from here (I hope to have a lot of the small stuff done the weekend before.)

No word confirming Scott's travels this week. It seems they're starting to allow flights in Europe, and as long as he can get to Amsterdam, he can take the train from there. We'll see...