Life Updates of a Larger Magnitude

Life is not measured by minutes.  Some minutes are full.  Some days are empty.  We are living very full minutes right now.  I've been subsisting on coffee, food from boxes, and red wine (at the end of the day to slow my roll.)  I usually pick my kids up from school, take them to my flip properties, and then work until 6:30 or 7.  Come home, dig up some food, put them to bed.  Pass out.  It's a good kind of full, but I can feel the tension singing in my muscles and bones.  It's not sustainable.  It doesn't have to be, just 2 more weeks and then... these properties better be done, because this train is leaving!  After school today we spent a luxurious hour swimming in the pool.  Now it's time to go back to work.

My oldest neighbor and childhood accomplice emailed me this morning regarding the (epic) Re-Wedding plans. The subject of moving to PA came up, followed by, "Where will you be living?"  The following email string sums up our awesome childhood shenanigans and begs to be shared: Me:  We will be living at my parent's place!  Not 100% about this yet, but likely we will build them an 900 SF in-law "addition", and take over the main house.  We're moving in with them for the summer to do a test run and hammer out the details.  If that doesn't come together, then we'll buy a house somewhere in that area. Him:  Smart move!!!  Now you can finally make the rules and your parents will have to listen.   Rule 1:  You are required to get down to the lower level by laundry shoot only; Rule 2:  Jumping off the back deck into the bushes is required at least 10 times a year; Rule 3:  Burning dried out grass heads is permitted a...

I'm getting so excited for our move.  SO EXCITED!  I'm going to finally spend adult time with my parents (which I'm sure will be infuriating and full of unintended consequences, but also awesome.)  They will be a daily (or maybe weekly) part of our lives for as long as we have them.  This is a deliberate choice, maybe a crazy choice, but one that I embrace with the little knowledge I have of the actuality of it.  I may miss the weather, but life is about people to me, not things. I'm going to live 0.4 miles away from my best friend, and 3.7 miles away from my sister.  I'm going to do real estate.  Matt is going to do a business adventure with his best friend.  This is a deliberate move.  This is a deliberate life.  This is a rebuttal to all the times people say, "I wish I could... but I can't."  Because the thing is, "There's enough time in  your life for everything important."  You are given only one life on this plane...