Will he or won't he?

Even though I have spoken with my father and he has said, "ok", I'm still not sure he's moving in with us. If he does, it'll be roughly three months from now and there are a lot of things that need to happen before he does. Cleaning out the spare bedroom which is currently filled with some boxes and the closet is full of stuff is going to be a chore all by itself.

There's no bed, no sheets, no pillows, no nothing. No semblance that it's even close to being a bedroom for someone. It's been my clothes closet for over three years now and more recently my 7 year old's playroom. I'm not going to change it until I know he's coming for sure. Although I should clean it out anyway, or at least reorganize in there.

Thinking about having Dad move in

Recently it has come to my attention that my father Harry wants to get to know me better. I agree. Trouble is, he lives in Libby, MT and I live in Phoenix, AZ. I work full time during the school year and I have a child who is also in school. I get the summer off (a strong benefit for working for the school district). Since my loving husband just started a new job at the Post Office as a postal carrier, we can't just up and move, and we don't want to live in MT anyway - we love AZ! So, I called my father and told him that if he wants to get to know me better he would have to come live here with us. There's a bedroom for him and we will have it ready when he gets here. That won't be until June, however, as his sister is planning to visit in early June for her (and her twin brother Vern's) birthday. And I'm off for the summer and that will give us plenty of time to get reacquainted and get him settled in. I've never done caregiving before, (except for the two weeks Carli and I went to Pendleton, OR) not really and I need to learn everything I can before Harry gets here. So, I will. Three months isn't a lot of time to prepare, but I don't have much choice. I don't know for sure that Harry will move here, but when I suggested it, he said 'Ok.' There wasn't any arguing and I was surprised. We'll see. I told him we have lots of time to still discuss things, and he seemed to be ok with that. And I can't really start to prepare anything until I have confirmation from Harry that he is actually going to move here in June. So much to mull over!