(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

Time to start a new chapter in our life!

While growing up, our family moved often because my father was in the Air Force. I have not considered houses as emotional objects. They come and they go. However, I had a tiny bit of sadness when I finished cleaning the acreage house for the new owners. Thinking about the years we spent living in it and remembering so many happy occasions there. 19 years of my life was spent in this house. Before that, the longest I had lived in one house was 3.5 years.

The sadness came and went quickly however. I am very excited for the new family moving in and wish them many years of happiness in this home!

Our new permanent residence is at the lake! And you will find me drifting around on it often...

Thanks for visiting!

My life is in the trash

Wow, it feels like forever since I've been able to post something on my blog! Life has just been crazy these past few weeks and I wanted to check in and just say "howdy!" and let you know that I am still here! 

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I am a web designer at my regular job. (A job I love!) After working for many, many, many months on a new website -- it was launched on Wednesday, August 3.

Not 10 minutes after I 'hit the switch' to launch the new site, I had to run home and sign papers -- because our acreage sold!

Yay!!!

Since that day, it has been non-stop work. Moving out of a huge house we have lived in for 19 years is one thing -- but add to it a barn, an extremely large metal building, and a 19-year-old daughter heading back to college -- it became very time-consuming. Especially trying to move out in less than 30 days. Then add the new website and all the changes/additions/corrections that go along with it...

I was literally working from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. for nearly a month with almost no breaks. Running back and forth between the acreage house, the lake house (our new permanent home), my office -- and the Goodwill donation store which is 25 miles away.

The only day I did not spend working was last week when I helped our daughter move back into her dorm at college to begin her sophomore year. The 6 hour round-trip was a welcome break from everything. I spent about 4 hours at the college. Helping her move things into her dorm room, a quick trip to Walmart for some necessary items and we had lunch together. As sad as I am to see her leave again, I know she is excited to get back into the swing of things at college. That makes me happy.

And now... we are done... all we need to do is wait for the closing day.

Here is a photo of the giant dumpster we had to rent to clean out the barn and metal building:

This thing was huge! It held a LOT of stuff.

By the time it was picked up, it was completely filled to the top.

Yep -- our lives were in the trash. Literally! LOL!


Thanks for visiting!