Today is the First Day of the New House

Sigh...we're here.  Today we sign the lease and get the keys.  The movers come on Saturday so we're spending the rest of the week making as many trips as possible to get a lot done so hopefully the movers will just be moving the heavy stuff.

I've moved a lot in my life.  Much more than most people.  My entire life I've been asked if my family was military because we moved around so much.  That's humorous because I married a man whose family was military. There are a lot of downsides to moving...a LOT but there are some good things.

1.  Fresh Start.  There's something revitalizing about beginning again.  You can reinvent things and do things differently if you chose.  It's a physical and mental cleansing I guess.  Every time I move I try to do something different.  This last move I had to learn to do more things differently than I was comfortable with but in the end change can be good.  I still haven't seen the inside of the new house and I'm a bit giggly inside trying to imagine what it could all be like.  What wall can I place things on - how will I set up Connor's room.

2. Ritualistic Cleaning.  There is nothing like the feeling you get when you're throwing out at least 10 garbage bags of stuff.  I've given a ton of stuff away to friends and to charity.  I found a drop-off box that is solely for Aboriginal families and that has eased my social conscience mind a bit.  Well, a little bit anyway.  Not saying it makes up for things...just that I feel like I've done something - not matter how minuscule.  But there still is a lot to get rid of.  I've really inherited my father's pack rack abilities; but I am trying.

3. Seeing a new area.  We're moving from Normanhurst to Hornsby Heights.  Not very far from each other but enough that there are new people. new shops, new parks and new things to see.  I will have a beautiful view of the bush - forest to my American readers.  That is one of my favorite landscapes and when I daydream of my lottery money house it always has a few of trees.  Not bad.  Something new and beautiful.

Here is my last post for a few days I'm sure.  The moving frenzy is about to overtake me and I'll be cursing and swearing with the best of them.  I will post pictures of the house as soon as I can.  I can't wait to see it too!