It’s been awhile since my last post and so much has happened! From our big move to taking our eldest to college and starting home school there is much to tell. Oh yeah…. moving into our Water View home! Let’s start with….the big move!
Selling our house ended up being very easy despite all my worry. It’s par for the course that I worry unnecessarily while my husband is calm and collected. There was no need to worry about the house not selling during a pandemic. We had the house on the market for just a couple weeks and had so many showings. We had two offers and the one we took was over asking! Husband one, me zero. There was no need to worry about the scaling down of our five bedroom home to a two bedroom and not hiring movers. I’ll share more about how liberating it was to get rid of so much of our stuff in a second…..husband two, me zero. Well, it’s not a competition, but I realized how much I think and worry about things I don’t need to. Thank goodness I have such a calm and collected partner in life!
When we first started getting the house ready to list the house for sale it was a bit overwhelming, not going to lie. Day after day I cleaned, sorted, threw stuff away…..it seemed never ending! Just when I thought I’d finished a room I’d open a closet and realize I had missed it. Ugh…that happened more than once and got more defeating each time. However, what I found through this whole process was how freeing it is to let go of all the “stuff” we had accumulated through the years. So many towels, so much bedding, and why did I have three sets of measuring spoons? What I realized was my stuff had been weighing me down. I didn’t need so much and it felt so good to get rid of things. I don’t ever want to accumulate so much again. In fact, I think there is still a lot more scaling down we can do.
It all got done though and then the showings started. I worried we wouldn’t get any because of the pandemic, but I was quickly proven wrong. (BTW husband three, me zero). I have to say that while the work to get the house into shape for showing was tedious and seemingly never ending the house looked sparkling! I loved how clean and organized everything was and wanted to bring some level of that with me to our Water View.
After one buyer fell through, the house finally sold and we closed on it the end of July. My husband decided to take the road trip with the dog and pull the trailer with our belongings earlier and I stayed back with my son and daughter to wrap things up and then fly out after. The day of the closing I did a final cleaning of the home, double checked I packed up everything, and took a moment by myself to say goodbye to my life in Colorado. I was born in Colorado and loved the upbringing I had there. My biological children were born there….my daughter was born in the same hospital I was born in. I looked back fondly and with much love as I turned my face towards a new adventure.
Traveling via an airplane during a pandemic is certainly an experience. The airplane was alarmingly full which was a bit disconcerting, but in a matter of hours we had “moved.” The whole flight (and leading up to it) I’d been full of so many emotions and thoughts. I’m not sure my son was all that excited to make this move….my greatest hope was that in time he would be happy with the new circumstances and environment. This move meant I could be home with him rather than consumed 24/7 by work. It meant our money would go farther and we could work towards paying off debt and becoming debt free. It meant we could enjoy life right on the water.
My mother, who made a huge move when she married my dad from Louisiana to Alaska, told me to expect a lot of different feelings over this first year especially. She has not been wrong….while I miss aspects of the life I knew in Colorado, especially my family and friends, I wouldn’t give up the chance for this adventure. I feel renewed and excited for the new experiences which are part of this adventure. It hasn’t been all unicorns and rainbows for sure, but it has been rich with life and I’m truly grateful for this Water View adventure.
