Around Here

Someone got her library card after someone else labeled “DELINQUENT” paid her library fines.

Someone participated in the school science fair and was extremely annoyed at someone else because she made her wear a dress.  You don’t make lighting in a dress.

The weather’s been beautiful so we are playing on the blacktop.

We are moving.

Joy the Baker, a gal who knows her way around a kitchen and has an excellent writing voice, recently moved to New Orleans from LA, and she wrote, “It’s always a bit of a brain-bend to leave the space where you’ve created so much.” I wrote that down in my blogging journal (yes, I keep a blogging journal) because it resonated but I knew that we would be moving this year and I thought I would use her words to help me enter into the story of what I want to tell you about our move.

The thing is, I’d like to experience this move before I tell you about it. I’d like to move in to this new place with my family, maybe have a barbecue, or let the girls ride their bikes up and down the sidewalk. I’d like to know what it’s like to make dinner in the kitchen while the girls play in the yard, or how it feels to not have to take groceries up three flights of stairs.

Also, I am grateful for the place we’ve lived for almost eight years. It’s where we brought our babies home and where they took their first steps. We found room for a Christmas tree in this place, and had a few birthday parties. It’s the place I started a blog, and stood on our little deck and thought it was pretty cool I could see Sugarloaf Mountain from it.

So yes, it is a brain bend to leave this space because I have created so much. We all have.  The walls we are in for the next few days are pulsating with memories. I guess I can’t tell you about the new place (that I’m very, very excited about living in) while I still feel like the one we’re leaving still has a heartbeat.