10 great years!

I don't like change. I don't like it one bit. It's hard. I get VERY cranky when my ducks are not all in a row. We recently sold our home where we have lived for the past 10 years. It happened very quickly. Good thing too, because I would've taken it off the market after about 1 week! Greg wouldn't let me. He kept telling me it was hard now but would all be ok in a little while. He was very calm throughout the whole thing. I on the other hand was a wreck--couldn't sleep, couldn't eat (I lost 5 pounds on the stress diet. Works wonders.) I lived in this home longer than anywhere else in my life except the home where I grew up, and that my parents still live in. It was a tough move emotionally. Much harder than I thought it would be. I shed MANY MANY tears throughout the process. We moved into this house before we had any kids, but Natalie and Samantha were born just 3 weeks later. It was a wonderful home for 10 great years!! Many, many wonderful memories were made there. It was interesting to go through the process of packing up and watching how our wonderful home simply became a house. At one point at the end Greg commented how the house had lost it's "spirit". I know my "home" is coming with me--Greg and the girls--and that wherever we are together is home. I am so grateful for my mom and all her help during the packing up and moving out!! She helped our family in so many ways! Also a huge thanks to our many friends and ward members who so willingly gave their time to come and help us!

We have been out for almost a month now and I am starting to feel a little less sad about moving away from our house and neighborhood. I know we will make many more happy memories in our next home, and I am trying to just "find joy in the journey" as we transition.