We might be moving again.
If it seems like we just finished a big move, that’s because we did. We’re just getting settled in our new rental house — a house we like a lot.
And yes, I’ve mentioned before that moving is just about my least favorite thing ever. So I’m more than a little unnerved by the prospect of doing it all over again so soon.
But this time we’re thinking about buying a house and, if all goes according to plan, it could be our last move for quite a while. So there’s that….
I bought a watermelon not long ago with plans to slice and serve it at my son’s first birthday party. Then, in the hustle of last-minute party preparations, I completely forgot about it.
We made a little dent in it over the next couple of days, but we were still left with the better part of a watermelon taking up valuable refrigerator real estate.
This didn’t sit well with Paul, who called it the worst food purchase ever.
So I made a watermelon salad and served it to him for dinner. …
A lot has happened since the last time I hit ‘publish’ on a blog post, not the least of which being a long-distance move from San Antonio to Wilmington, NC.
I’ve never liked moving — the sorting and packing and cleaning, and then doing it all over again at the new place. One thing I can tell you, however, is that moving was a hell of a lot easier before I had three cats and a baby. Back when I could fit everything I owned into the back of my compact car.
We left San Antonio for Wilmington just after Memorial Day and this was, by far, my most complicated move ever. My husband, Paul, and I both upended our careers to come here, to a new rental house we had never even seen before, except in pictures. We arrived more than a week before the movers and when they finally got here some of our stuff was damaged. Then one of the cats disappeared, returning after five long, worry-filled days, hungry but otherwise unharmed. There were some other things too, that I won’t go into in detail — a hospital visit, an unexpected surgery, some soul searching, some changes in plans.
Needless to say, June was exhausting….