Dear Corbin,
May was your last month of preschool...ever! For your whole life! You're registered for Kindergarten! You're going to be in real school! Exclamation point!
I keep trying not to be the parent who always writes things like: I can't believe you're already that old, it seems like yesterday you were a little baby, how did the time go so fast? But then we hit something that makes me feel that way so strongly that it's almost impossible not to type one of those sentences.
I think it might have been more important to you that preschool is over if you hadn't left the next morning to go camping for a month in the new RV. I was not at all surprised when your grandparents Lam bought an RV. I had wondered, when they sold their camper before moving to CA, if they would regret that decision. I had wondered if my father would actually be able to stomach paying money to rent an RV for the trip. Between those two things, the fact that they bought one was practically a foregone conclusion. So they spent the month getting the new RV outfitted and making camping reservations at their intended stopping points along the route to Madison. You thought the test drive that we took in it was pretty fun, except for the fact that we wouldn't let you ride on the top bunk.
The four of us took a little weekend trip up to Lake Arrowhead over Mother's Day weekend. My work had organized a conference for some of the researchers, and I got offered a spot after someone cancelled. It was a nice place to visit. The drive there was long and full of traffic, and then drive back started out with Miriam getting car sick because of the mountain roads, but we had a fun time playing on the lake shore and swimming in the pool. It's still very strange to drive for 4 hours and only be 100 miles away, and still in the same state.
It was Grandma's birthday at the end of the month. You and I had picked up a gluten free cake mix at the grocery store, so we baked a little cake. I did the frosting and you did the sprinkles and put the candles on. We gave her a garden flag with Lake Michigan lighthouses on it, and a set of little bunny garden statues. Hopefully we'll find a new house soon and be able to decorate a new yard.
We accepted an offer on the Minneapolis house. Hopefully all the inspections will go well and we'll be able to sell it. It would be a relief to have the financial burden gone, and to feel like we can really move forward when we find a new place that we like. I'm trying hard to think optimistically, and be patient with the looking. So far, I'm distracting myself by getting your portraits taken and buying more books. A new book can solve almost every problem.
Love,
Mom
Checking out the RV before our test drive:
Grandma's birthday is so exciting!
Packing up to leave:
Ready for adventure!
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