Friday will be an historic day for my family.

That’s the day we return home after spending nearly six weeks living with my mother-in-law and father-in law while our house was being remodeled.

As the old saying goes, It’s been real. It’s been fun. But it’s not been real fun.

My in-laws are great people and I appreciate everything they’ve done, including feeding us, washing our clothes and cleaning after us, these past few weeks. They’ve just done a lot for us, but I’m sure they want their home back to themselves as much as we want to go back home.

I know our invasion of their home has been as hard on them as it has been on us.

I knew when we began talking about this project that it wouldn’t be easy and it hasn’t been.

But the improvements to our 70-plus year-old home have been great and it’s been well worth the many inconveniences.

I’m counting down the minutes, however, that I can go to sleep in my own bed.