T-Minus 30 Minutes

In 30 minutes three people are going to show up at our door and pack up our entire house for the pending move tomorrow.  This week has been a whirlwind.  In the past 48 hours we have found a place to live, booked packers, booked movers, and are on our way.    The past 48 hours have also been a little emotional and stressful to say the least.  The feeling of leaving this house and this neighborhood tears at my heart.  We have only lived in this house for 2 1/2 years but we have made so many amazing memories.  Many of those memories are related to our journey of becoming parents for the first time.  We had only lived here for four months before we  found out in this house, in our bathroom that we were going to be blessed with a child.  Then in the same bathroom 10 months later my water broke and we bustled out the door to have a baby.

This house  is where I think I truly learned about perspective, and balance, and just living in the now. I had become a wife right before we moved here, and then a mom shortly there after.  Two life changing events that now define who I am and my existence.  See our house is kind of out in the middle of nowhere.  You get off the exit, you past cow pastures, and all of a sudden out of nowhere is this beautiful gated community.  It is 15 minutes to the grocery store, and pretty much anything else which at times drove me crazy.  Yet, living in the now, and enjoying simples pleasures was what we did here.  Countless nights out on the lanai with great wine, and great conversations with John.  Then Jack came along and he joined in the fun sitting outside on Friday nights in his swing, and now running around like a mad man playing basketball.  It is almost like we became real adults in this house. 

and.......the doorbell has rung.  I will surely continue my memory post on this house later.  But for now let's get this done.