bibliomom

So this last week adoptingmama finally got her new house!

It’s very exciting – the kids were like, lined up at the front door with their sleeping bags going, “Mom - do we have the key, yet? … How about now? Should we go ahead and get in the car? Mom … Mom!”

So they’ve been roughing it at the new place since last Thursday, and by Sunday morning at church, The Word Was Out: adoptingmama was in her own place and out of mine.

And the interrogations are cracking me up!

I kept getting asked, “Wow – so do you feel like you have empty nest syndrome? Your house must be so quiet!” She keeps getting asked, “Are you guys still friends? Do you still talk to each other?”

Now I’m not sure if everyone just knows that adoptingmama’s so fab that anyone would miss having her around, or if they all just know that I could drive a saint to the brink of insanity, but I still find it hilarious that we get asked such different questions. And then there’s the looks of total amazement when we tell them that, yeah, we’re fine, we still talk to each other and even over the course of a weekend, have been back and forth to each others houses a half-dozen times.

I mean, Lord have mercy, the two of us trekked down to Ikea 3 times over Memorial Day weekend! If that’s not sistahs for life, I don’t know what is ;-)

And after getting up at o’dark-hundred for a Memorial Day run to Ikea, a full day a the church picnic, and a half-hour of furniture unloading to boot, Twin A stood there in my house, hands behind her back as the rest of her family trailed out to the car.

“Um, your Mom’s leaving – were you planning on staying here for the evening?”

“Yup.”

“Oh. Well, it’s okay with me, but you should probably check with your mom first.”

A short chat later, and Twin A and Twin B stood on my porch, waving goodbye to the rest of the family.

“This is our first sleepover!” said Twin B.

“Where should we sleep?” said Twin A.

(Umm, in the bed you’ve been sleeping in for four months?)

Empty nest? I have four new nieces and nephews who’re already planning out of summer full of sleepovers, field trips and Rock Band; I don’t see that my days are going to be changing all that much.

Adoptingmama just has a way better place to sleep come night time ;-)