I am sitting in a dark and windy trailer in the back yard, waiting for Norah to fall asleep so I can run in and take my last shower in the hideous blue tub we gave up cleaning some weeks ago in anticipation of its timely demise...it's windy in here because we don't have a 30A circuit for the AC yet and there are fans going like crazy, and oh, have you heard, the weather was stellar for this holiday weekend... heat wave even....
The 4th of July was on a Thursday, so it make for a nice 4 day weekend for a lot of folks, including us. As it turned out it allowed us to have something like a normal weekend while still doing the final clear out of the house. We had some neighbors over for a final flat house Friday night on the deck (only it was Wednesday), we made it to a pool party/cook-out on the 4th, an evening swim at the lake, and had a stellar (ocean) beach day yesterday... in between which we took down blinds, disassembled furniture, hauled stuff in the 95 deg heat out to the camper, cleaned and sorted and organized and stowed things in the basement. Matt is in the house in the AC finishing things off... I'd say he was snoozing in the cooler temps in there, but at this point, there isn't anywhere to sit, let alone lay down.
It's been an interesting couple of weeks, not quite the archaeological dig that moving can sometimes be, but a trip down memory lane nonetheless. Long forgotten (already!) wedding albums, christening gowns, odds and ends of baby toys. Taking down blinds that we first put up when we moved into the house, getting rid of some vestiges of babyhood, like a diaper pail (SEE YA!) and the rocker (bittersweet). Seeing all of our things, stashed and stowed in only a couple of hundred square feet in the basement.
The trailer seems adequate and inadequate at the same time... when we decided to do this, we thought we'd be complete closer to Canadian Thanksgiving than the American version. Our bed is a little small, well heck, everything is a little small - it's a camper after all. I'm only just starting to get my mind around how our routine will need to change, and change again as summer draws to a close. On the other hand it has all that we need and a change doesn't necessarily need to be bad... we'll visit the library more often, visit friends more often... it will be a challenge to eat well on a regular basis, I think, with limited fridge and kitchen space, but maybe we'll unlock the key to Roddie's eating issues along the way, who knows!
I set out to write this post to document how we, or really, I, was feeling as we launch this project, and the truth is, overall, I feel just fine about it. There is a HUGE unknown factor here, but Lord knows we've analyzed it to death and it feels good to finally be getting it started. I don't always deal well with uncertainty, so this is big for me.
Norah's asleep, I am off to toss the last load of laundry in until who knows when!
I set out to write this post to document how we, or really, I, was feeling as we launch this project, and the truth is, overall, I feel just fine about it. There is a HUGE unknown factor here, but Lord knows we've analyzed it to death and it feels good to finally be getting it started. I don't always deal well with uncertainty, so this is big for me.
Norah's asleep, I am off to toss the last load of laundry in until who knows when!
