Feel-Good Friday: It’s Good to be Home… and Homing In

After one week in our new house, it feels like our new house. That's not bad---seven days. We're not done, but we live here now, and it no longer looks like someone dumped boxes, and then dumped stuff out of boxes. (Except in the basement. The basement is... yikes.) This house was built in 1941 …

Moving Monday: What a Difference a Week Makes

I'm writing this post from our new dining room (which is a vast overstatement of what this room actually is) because my office is still in upheaval and I don't have a desk chair yet. I had to look at the calendar to see that last week's post was only a week ago. It feels …

Moving Monday (on a Tuesday): Hitting the Ground

We "landed" in our new hometown yesterday afternoon. It feels like we've been in the process of moving for about six months. But it was only about 10 weeks ago that we found out we'd have to move in August instead of October. About six weeks ago, we got permission to move early and came …

Feel-Good Friday: On the Way, At Last

Today's the first in a week's worth of Hotel Posts. Yesterday (on my birthday, HBD to me?) we finished packing all the boxes at our house, and spent our first of eight hotel nights. Today the moving truck comes, and a week from today we'll be hard at work getting settled as quickly as possible …

Moving Monday: The Final Stretch

These are the countdown days. Three more nights to sleep in this house. Four days til the moving truck comes. One week til we drive out of town. This final stretch is the hardest for me. Even when I'm not really sad to move away, even when I'm anxious to get to the new place, …

Feel-Good Friday: Loose Ends Tied Up, and Living Unsettled

This is the last time I'll write Feel-Good Friday from this house. A week from today, the movers will come to load the truck... which means for the next week we're living in rooms lined with boxes and random missing furniture. We've taken down all our curtains and rehung the (cough*ugly*cough) ones that were here …

Moving Monday: Living in the Almost-but-Not-Yet

Somehow we went from "moving is a long way off" to "moving is NEXT WEEK." The truck comes in 11 days. Typically, because the moving company packs all our stuff, our house and life remain fairly "normal" until the very last few days. This time, since we're packing ourselves and we started way early, this …

Moving Monday: The Gift of Story

We are sitting very much "in between" these days, and feeling more and more in-between-y by the minute. Everything is in flux, but somehow at the same time nothing much is changing just now. There are a few more boxes, a few more things on the to do list, a few things checked off, but …

Moving Monday: One Month Countdown

Time has a funny way of both dragging and flying at this stage of the moving game. We feel like we're just hanging around and waiting, twiddling our thumbs... and at the same time the To Do list is mildly panic-inducing. Yesterday I realized it is probably for everybody's benefit that, in this Covid season, …

Moving Monday: Living In-Between

I feel like there's a more sophisticated way to say this, but: The last month of living someplace is WEIRD. Two opposite things are happening at once: 1) You want to be fully present right where you are so you can soak it all up before you leave, and 2) You are mentally detaching and …