Ahhhh…moving. I’ve mentioned this before, but here we go again. Confession: I’m overly emotional and sentimental. We officially have one full week left before we need to be completely out of our house and it is stressful! There is so, so much to do and we’re shooting a wedding this weekend and out of town every weekend until mid August and whew. Crazy.

So of course this has spiraled me into emotional reminiscing of the little house where we spent two years of marriage and wasn’t all that thrilled with but now somehow am painfully attached to. The life of a sentimental person is very fragile. I’m counting down the nights we have left to sleep here and suddenly love our little living room and am forgetting just how excited I am to have a dishwasher now. I’m also finding out how pointless it seems to pack up your house when you’re only moving a two minute drive away.

But things I’m thankful for: a dishwasher for sure, a dining room so we can actually invite people over and cook dinner for them!, a more permanent guest room so that we can host people or provide a place for students to stay easily, a kitchen that has a size  that makes sense, a porch complete with a porch swing, and a sitting room to fill with books and cozy chairs.

I’m thankful for how we used our little house well and that David is reminding me of that. It is hard to fit more than a couple extra people in our current living room…David walked in more than once to find me and all of my small group girls on the kitchen floor because that’s the only place we could fit. I crammed 10 girls every other week for awhile into our cozy home to talk life and healing. We had many a visitor stay in the “thinking room” and even converted our weird attic upstairs into an office for me! David and I learned how to cook together, danced in the kitchen together, had netflix marathons in our living room together, celebrated many a holiday and two Christmases on our own together. I love our little house and am getting excited about the possible new adventures the bigger house has to offer :]

So dear readers, think of me this week as I’m packing our life away and starting somewhere new. Here’s to beginnings!

ps: also think of us as we begin painting tomorrow…eek!