Up early with thoughts running through my head and a need to write
them down! The past 4 days went fast, yet seem to have lasted forever
too! Sue and I left Wednesday morning and headed to Evansville. We had
a great time talking the whole way and sharing many stories. The drive
was easy and seemed short. Sue went on to spend time with Judy for a
few days while I had a nice time staying with my parents. I got to go
eat dinner with them and get ALL of their attention - LOL! Didn't have
to share it with Em & Ev! Ha ha ha! It was very fun to hang out
with them and talk and watch the baseball games on tv too. Thursday I
headed over to our house and was literally shaking when the moving truck
pulled up at 8am. I walked the guys, Rob and Sven, through the house.
"Yes, that goes, yup, yup, that too." I stepped out on the porch and
fought back some tears. "Crap! There is a MOVING truck in front of our
house!...To move us to NORTH CAROLINA!!"
Kendra arrived and we sat on
the couch looking through magazines and catching up for the majority of
the morning. It felt incredibly weird not being able to work. If you
know me, you know I like to be busy and working and helping. I brought
some chocolates for Kendra and I. Our husbands jokingly (I think...)
tell us that we just sit around and eat bon bons all day, so I figured
for our last days as neighbors we needed to actually do it. Don't be mad that I put the picture in, Kendra - too cute not to share!
Rhonda, my
favorite friend with a pet goat, came by to visit too - it was so good
to see her!! Someone actually even came to see the house in the midst
of the chaos. By 3pm the guys had the inside of the house packed. I
think it would have taken me a week. They took off and I started
cleaning a few things in the house. I also started thinking of the
mess, the amount of stuff they couldn't take with them that I was going
to need to transport, and how long it is going to take to unpack and
started to become overwhelmed. The box of spaghetti that got spilled
and then stepped on a hundred times that day throughout the house didn't
help! LOL! I found it hard to pray while I was in Evansville. I am
not sure why. Not for lack of trying. Probably just the amount of
stress and emotion involved I guess. Friday morning the guys arrived
and started loading the truck and packing up the garage and shed. They
underestimated how much stuff we had outside, so it took them about 4
hours longer than they thought it would. It was amazing to see how fast
they got it done though. I felt a lot better on Friday because I was
busy cleaning each room as it emptied out. I also got to be a hero for
finding some lost favorite toys for the kids AND the cats! My parents
and Kendra were there most of the day and the guys were joking around
with us a lot. Lots of laughing, which was so nice. The house actually
looks really good empty. I know that our realtor and everyone else says
it is harder to sell an empty house, but I think we might of still had
too much stuff in our house and now that it is empty it looks SO much
bigger - some areas are open and nice that we had big pieces of
furniture in - blocking nice window areas, etc. So, I am very confident
that it will be good for the sell.
As I left the subdivision after a long two days I could not hold
back the tears. I was overwhelmed with emotion. My mom sat next to me
as I drove away and reminded me that each chapter of our lives is sad
when it ends, but the next one always has something to look forward to.
As I am typing this now, we are back at Tony and Sue's. The kids are
up now and all 4 of us are piled in the bed and the kids are watching
something you'd never believe. We have not watched it in years. 'Blue's
Clues' This show was a favorite of both kids when they were toddlers.
Both had Blue's Clues themed 2nd birthday parties. (Emily even had the
special edition blue ice cream with paw print shaped cookies in it that
gave everyone some odd green colored poo for a few days afterwards, but
that is another story! ha!) What a fun time it was in our lives. Cute
little kiddos toddling around with a little diaper butt and cute words
babbling out of their mouths. But, what adventures we have had with
them since those days! How much they have learned. How Jeff and I have
grown closer to each other and to God since then. How I have grown and
changed and learned and become stronger since then. It was a fun time
and it is ok to reminiscence and to even get a little teary thinking
back and missing it a bit. But, greater things have come and are even
yet to come. And as God has closed the Evansville chapter in our lives,
just as the Blue's Clues chapter came to an end, He is leading us on to
the next page in our stories which He prepared just for us.
1 Corinthians 2:9
That is what the Scriptures mean when they say,
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
and no mind has imagined
what God has prepared
for those who love him.”
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