Change Happens…

I actually started this entry on Monday, but I was just now able to finish it.

So, we’re officially moved into Mark’s parent’s house. We moved our big stuff to my sister’s house last week. She’s letting us use her basement for a few months! We moved the rest of our stuff into the garage apartment at the Estes yesterday. We were both so tired last night, and this morning was hilarious… Mark trying to dig through boxes to find his clothes, me going back and forth from the kitchen inside to the mini little “kitchenette” I set up for us upstairs, trying to fix Mark’s lunch. Bread-upstairs, ham- downstairs, Cheese -downstairs, baggy-upstairs… you get the point. I broke the world record for longest time to make ham, cheese, and and pickle (yes, it makes me want to gag too) sandwich. The best part of it… Mark was in a hurry and left without his lunch!

In this middle of this Estes madness, I looked at our empty little house yesterday and had I not been so tired and ready to go to bed, I probably could have cried. Isn’t it funny that 4 walls and a roof can be packed of so many memories you don’t want to leave behind?! We’re SO excited about what is ahead and SO thankful for how God is getting us there, step by step. But, for a minute, I wanted to freeze time, wanted to hold on to the memories that were made here…. Cleaning the yucky house when Mark first moved in (I’ve heard I didn’t have to do the worst of it… thank you Peggy an April! , painting, helping my “Friend,” Mark, turn it into a fun bachelor pad, trying to disguise those BEAUTIFUL teal leather couches, eventually making it an actual home (byebye bachelor pad, hello real furniture), coming home from our honeymoon, Christmas, birthdays, youth groups, singing at the top of our lungs and dancing around the house (hoping no one peaked through our windows), movie nights, fun nights with our nephews, and everything in between.

It’s crazy how we can be so thankful and excited about where we’re headed, yet be slightly sad that this season of our life is coming to a close. Amy said that reading our blog is like reading a really exciting story, and not being able to put it down…. well said! Well, we love our story book and we can’t wait to see what happens in this chapter.

~L