Strange times you guys!  The movers come on Wednesday, and we are preparing to move out of the only home our kids have ever known.  Frankly, it is the home that I have lived in the longest.  For my whole life.  That sounds crazy, but as a military "brat", we moved a LOT.  

Me in the Philippines with my mom.  Notice the fence?  There was a jungle beyond and I have some crazy stories about snakes and monkeys.

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