Mary:  You sure know how to please a crowd. This looks scrumptious!

Tina:  I got small ones this time. But they are very good quality and the fries are wonderful. Now eat while your food is hot.

Bette: So how is Daniel’s room coming along?

Tina: Very well actually. Almost all of his clothes are going to charity. So that makes life simple. Getting through the other stuff takes a little longer. We are about half way through it all.

Angie:  I think another hour or so, and I will have everything packed for New Haven. What’s left will go in my overnight bag. Am I going to be able to keep my big bag?

Bette: Only, if you can nestle the overnight bag into it and if you can store it under your bed. There will be no useable space in your closet. And you may need to store your ironing board under your bed also. You will still have your bookcase and your desk for storage. But most of that will should be school related.

Tina: After lunch, we need to get the trash and excess card board down to the dumpster before we take a nap. What I would like to do is work a couple more hours, then stop and take a nap for a couple of hours then get up and shower and dress to go to dinner. Just causal clothes. After dinner we can determine what the schedule should be.

Bette:  Mom?  How are you doing? Are you holding up? Okay?

Mary: Oh, I’m fine. I haven’t done anything that has been strenuous other than sitting on the floor to put those bikes and racks together. Getting up was the most difficult part. But there’s not a lot to folding clothes or stuffing clothes into bags and boxes.

Bette: Well, when you lay down, you are going to see that you have been far more active than you think. But we are making good progress. And most of that is thanks to the work Angie and Tina did back in July. Our jobs are far easier as a result. I want to thank all of you for pulling together and helping with this project.

Tina:  This project will benefit all of us. It’s going to get Angie comfortably into her Yale dorm and it’s going to get the rest of us into our new Santa Monica home. And Mary, we hope you will consider that your home while you are in the Los Angeles area or until you find something you believe better meets your needs.