Home Sweet Home

HOME SWEET HOME

This week I began packing our house to get ready for our move to Oregon and to get it ready to be shown to potential buyers, and I must say although I had anticipated it being hard to say good bye to our house, it's been even harder than I thought.  We've put so much into this house that thinking about leaving it to someone else is almost more than my emotional self can handle and yet we knew this day would come and in fact we've wished for it.  We've wished for a chance to be closer to my family, to live outside of California, and to perhaps have more space and outdoors for our children to grow up in, but none-the-less this week I have mostly been allowing myself to feel sad about the things we are leaving behind.

 

We moved into this, our 1st home, 8 months before Sadie was born and have been fixing it up ever since.  We've made a trip to Home Depot almost every weekend and Wyatt wakes up on Saturday mornings begging for his "erk boots" so that he can help Daddy with the house.  He literally knows nothing different.  We've brought all 3 of our kiddos home to this house and we've lived across the street from some of our very best friends for these last four and a half years.  We had no idea when we bought this placed how truly blessed we were, but now we do so naturally it's been difficult to think about letting it go. 

 

When we decided to start sending out resumes to see if there were any job opportunities for Brandon in Oregon it was with very mixed emotions and when he had landed a job that would take us to Oregon it was again with very mixed emotions that we accepted.  We don't take lightly our decision or what we're leaving behind.  Our house has become our home and our friends have literally become family to us here, and so leaving brings much sadness but also much excitement as we look forward to making a new place our Home.