A Change

Big changes happening in our future.  Huge changes, actually.

About a month after Gma. Barb died, our house that has been on the market with no potential buyers for 2 years, was suddenly inundated with interest.  After a bit of price-haggling , we received a full-price offer on the house--in this horrible market that is crazy lucky!  I do believe that G.Barb was doing her part to convince the good Lord that it was time for us to head back to Oregon.  And so we started packing.

And packing.  And throwing crap away.  And having a huge yard sale.  And still packing some more.

Leaving VA will be more difficult than I ever imagined.  This is where Bill and I really created a home for our family.  It's where our kids essentially grew up.  Heck, none of the kids even remember living in Oregon!  I am excited about (re)introducing them to the places and activities that are familiar to me from my childhood.  We have made some really lovely friends here in VA and the thought of not seeing them on a regular basis is pretty sad to us.  When we moved from Oregon we know that we'd be back to visit family there often.  But here, we don't see our family returning for a visit for several years.  It just makes us sad.  Thank goodness for social media and computers.  That makes it much easier to stay in touch.

As we get closer to our moving date (August 15), we are working hard to finish up the packing (have I told you about how much packing is involved in moving a house full of people?), visiting with people one last time, and getting prepared to drive across the country.  Did I forget to mention that?  Yes, we're driving across the country, just 4 kids, a dog, a van with 165,000 miles, and 24' moving truck.  And Bill and I, of course.  We'll keep y'all posted on THAT journey.

Did I also mention that we will be moving into a 100 year old house that was last updated in 1967?  Well, that's not entirely true.  The kitchen was completely remodeled in 1981.  There is plentiful scraping, painting, flooring, and updating to be done.

Oh, I also forgot to mention that Bill doesn't have a job.

Cross-country move into a 100 year old house, no job, lots of house updating to complete, and a family with 4 kids (and a Vader dog).  I do believe we've lost our minds.  Please be praying for my sanity.  I'm totally serious.

I've got to finish a post about our last big VA adventure--this weekend we went to Tangier Island.  It was the last place that we really wanted to visit before we moved.  Totally worth the wait.  Pictures and post coming soon.