We are packing up and preparing to vacate our house in a couple of weeks! It sold a few weeks ago, and so far everything is on track for us to close on time. The inspection on our home revealed nothing major except the need for a new roof, which fortunately was covered by our insurance due to hail damage. It felt so good to have confirmation that we are responsible homeowners and have taken good care of this house through the years. I knew it, but it was nice to really know.

We have found a new house, and I love it! Or, rather, I love the house it will become. It’s an older house that needs a little work before we can move in, but I am so excited about the house it will be. We aren’t the kind of people that want to move every few years, so we really wanted a house that would meet our needs the whole time our kids are growing up, and this one fits the bill. It’s in a great neighborhood, it has lots of space for our kids and all the friends they’ll bring home through the years, it’s on a wonderful lot with a big back yard, and it has a great layout with the floor plan we want. (Conway seems to be obsessed with split floor plans, where the master is on one side of the house with the remaining bedrooms on the other. I’m sorry, but if there’s a fire, or if someone is trying to break into our house in the middle of the night, I want to be able to get to my babies in two seconds flat and get out of there!)

There will be a few weeks between moving out of this house and moving into the new one, so we will be crashing with my parents in the interim and storing our stuff. It’s not the way I had originally envisioned moving, but it will work out ok. They have plenty of space for us and will love having Anna around more. They’re very accommodating!

I’ve been trying to pack, but this is all new to me. I’ve never in my life moved in such a way that we had to pack up the entire contents of our house at once. When my parents moved back when I was in college, it was an in-town move with some overlap between the houses, so we just threw some stuff in boxes, drove stuff to the new house, emptied the boxes and used them again, etc. Everything didn’t have to be actually packed. You could just strap a lamp into the passenger seat of your car, throw some pots and pans in a box and stick it in the floorboard, grab some hanging clothes and pile them in the backseat, and you were all set. Same thing when David and I moved from our first apartment into this house. This time, everything has to be well-packed in boxes. That’s easy enough for the stuff we don’t use every day (I’ve already packed things like books, china, decorations, games and movies), but we’re still living here and using our stuff, so how/when do I pack it? It’s a learning experience for sure—one I’ll have to learn all over again next time because we’re NOT wanting to do this again for at least 20 years!

So, in case you were wondering, there you have it. I’ll post more about the new house once it’s actually ours.

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