If your kid goes to a school 8+ hours away, and you helped move them out of the dorm

[Anonymous]

I’m mid40s, hate driving…I would have been wiped and exhausted. Sounds like you did the best you could. Agree on hiring the movers, local storage etc. And on washing everything, that’s what a laundromat is for. Your kid can do it all on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old are you? Are you super out of shape?

I am 40 and could do all that plus go for a run later in the day.

Just wait a few years. It’s all downhill from here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH, who is 53 and in great shape, is driving 9 hours to pick up DS. Driving after work meeting the first day and arriving around 9 or 10. Sleeping in a hotel. Packing and driving back the next day.

I'm suggesting he bring the dolly I bought and he is arguing that it is "too heavy". DS is literally on the first floor of a dorm with a ramp entrance so I don't know what kind of nonsense he's talking about, but I will let him decide.

At 53 he is barely out of college himself!

[Anonymous]

My kid is only a four-hour drive away and I still have to spend the night. Driving any length of time like that makes me so tired.

[Anonymous]

Day 1- make the long drive
Day 2- load car and make the drive back

[Anonymous]

Sounds like poor planning. Some of this is preventable. But now you know and can adjust next time.

It wouldn’t hurt to do some light HIIT as others have mentioned.