The Calm Before the Storm
April 15, 2009 
We're in kind of an awkward state these days... We know we've got some big changes coming, but for the moment we're at kind of a standstill. There are so many things that we will need to get done, but it's still too early to start most of it.
Take packing for our upcoming trip to MN, for instance. I can't really do any packing yet, because we still have about 2 1/2 weeks of living here before we head out, and we all still need all of our clothes and toiletries pretty much until the day before we leave.
Since we haven't sold our house yet and we aren't moving all of our things, and our house is being shown from time to time, we can't really pack up any of those things either.
Our basement needs to be cleaned out and things disinfected due to this discovery, but we don't want to do that until it comes time to move, so that we can take everything out, disinfect it, and put it right into the semi trailer that my brother-in-law is so graciously going to help us move with.
Instead I am trying to finish up some small projects and keep up with the day to day tasks as best I can. Today I spent quite a bit of time cooking and even had some time to play with some photos.
As I'm going about my day I keep on stopping and asking myself, "Wait. Shouldn't I be doing something else? Something that will get us ready for the move?" Then I realize that we're pretty much on schedule for most things in that regard and I keep on putsing along with what I was doing.
I also find myself realizing how many things that I do every day (and have been doing almost every day for a couple years now) that very soon I will no longer do every day. Most of them are really nothing significant, just the idiosyncrasies of our life... Pulling up the shades on our windows every morning and looking out at the horses, greeting the little boy that I've been watching three days a week, talking to the neighbors about this or that, letting the dogs in and out, Mr. Blue Eyes calling me on his lunch break and on his way home from work. Since I've been a stay-at-home mom, this house and I have gotten quite intimate. I can't say that I'm sad to leave it really, but it has been a good little first home for us, so it's special to me in some way.
I guess that's just how life is... Everything stays the same until, well, it changes.
As the next few weeks roll along I'm sure we'll get more into the nitty-gritty of packing and preparing, but for now things are strangely quiet and mundane. It's hard to believe that in a few short weeks this quiet and mundane existence will have vanished into thin air.
Not that things in the future won't be quiet and mundane too. I'm sure we'll quickly settle into our new routines.
We're quiet people. And we like being mundane. It suits our nature.
It's this whirlwind that lies between the quiet and mundane in Colorado and the quiet and mundane in Minnesota that gives me something to stir about. I can't help but wonder...
p.s. I tell you no lie... Shortly after I finished this post we started to hear the rumblings of our first thunder of the spring. The winds of change are a'blowin'!
Reader Comments (1)
Good luck with the move. I myself,I hate moving. Luckily, I haven't had to do it in a while. I will procrastinate with my packing until the end. It's different that you are leaving some things in the house, but good for marketing it, I imagine? You always take such nice photos! I love thunderstorms. Lightening scares me a bit, but thunder is cool and we rarely get any here!