3 Weeks and a Day

In just 3 weeks and day, we will be living somewhere else. Somewhere that's really just down the street, and yet we will be living inside 4 very different walls. This week the boxes have all come out and the pre-move chaos has begun, meaning that most conversations around here begin with "Have you seen..."

We have lived in this house for almost 6 years now. It has seen us both make the transition to semi-self employed and also working "out of the house", to both of us totally self employed and working out of the place where we live. It has seen us put perspective and hopes and sweat and hard work into each of our own creative endeavors, and seen them develop and flourish.

This house has seen many friends come for dinners and parties and celebrations. It has guested many of my family members from the other coast, many times, and has hosted many instruments playing and many voices singing. It has held many an artist gathering and suffered paint spilled on its floors. I guess in a sense, you could say it has held our lives for these past 6 years.

I will miss my view of the trees on the ridge across from us. I will miss painting in the kitchen (where my painting studio lives), I will miss running up the stairs to Rob's studio to see what he is doing up in his "tree" house, I will miss the kitty who visits from a few doors down, and I will miss the creaky wooden hallway from our bedroom to the living room.

There are many things that I won't be missing, but today, as I start to pack up all our things, I am looking around at the memories that hang in the air, dance in the dust motes, and generally surround me as I fill another box, tape it shut, label it and move to the next one.

In 3 weeks and a day I will be re-opening all these boxes, like it's Christmas, and getting to know another house, settling in to its creaks and its quirks, and gathering more moments, more memories, more life. (Anyone wanna come pack a box or 2?)

Comments

[aimee]

as a veteran mover i know that pain of packing and leaving a place that once held very special memories, and i also know that excitement of starting fresh and opening the 'christmas presents'. enjoy your last few weeks in your old home and best of luck moving to the new!