Getting Ready to Move

Well, here it is May 1, and you may be wondering what I've been doing lately. (As if there's anyone besides me who actually reads this!). Well, I'm still teaching Music one day a week, and working in the dental office two-three days a week. On Mondays I clean house, walk, and try to pack stuff.
We're getting ready to move. This is the biggest move we've ever made. I think it's because 1) it's the longest we have ever lived in any house since we've been married, 2) it's the biggest house we've ever lived in, and 3) it's the first time we've ever had to sell our house, since this is the first house we've ever owned. There is so much to do to make sure the house is ready to sell. We spent the day today taking a bunch of boxes and some shelves, and our entertainment center to a storage unit. It was quite exciting as I had to drive a big truck that we rented for a few hours to get all our stuff to the storage place. Thankfully, Tim and Todd helped me load and unload all the stuff.

One of the hardest things about moving is leaving my friends. It is so weird, because I sometimes feel that if I moved, no one would really care. But lately, several of my friends have indicated that my moving is really upsetting to them. I feel terrible, because I know how it is for friends to move away from me. Inside, I feel like saying, "Ok, I won't move!" But that is not really my heart's desire since I have never felt like California is "home", and I've really wanted to move back up the the northwest in like forever. I cannot believe I've lived down here 28 of the last 30 years! That's mind-boggling! I mean, how can I be that old! LOL. And now my parents are in their 80s (ok, Mom will be 80 in August) and I really want to spend as much time as possible with them at this time of their lives. And, I am really looking forward to having a nice manufactured home with a room for JUST ME to have my scrapbooking in! And even more importantly, Tom can have HIS OWN ROOM for all his baseball cards and stuff he's selling on EBay! Woohoo!

Another hard part of us moving is...Tim and Todd will be staying down here. This is very sad and somewhat upsetting to me. As much as I would want them to move out and get on with their "adult" lives, I really don't want to be so far away from them. I just hope and pray that they will find success in their jobs and in life in general. I really worry the most about Tim, because he doesn't seem to have any direction in his life and I don't know how he's going to make it. I just have to pray and pray and TRUST!

Well, that's all for now!