Out with the old and in with the new

Well I feel a little stressed today.   It may be self imposed stress though, but I have a big list of things to get done before I leave for work tomorrow.  I cleaned the house yesterday and really focused on getting things like cleaning the stove and scrubbing off all the hard water marks in the showers.   I want it to be a little easier to clean when we move out to your new home next month.    One of the things that I have been worried about was getting rid of our old couches and glider chair that we have had in our sun room for a while not knowing what to do with.  As I was cleaning the house I had a idea of what to do with them, I vacuumed them and spayed some Fabreze on then and moved them out to the front yard with a sign that said FREE.   We live on a major road so there are a lot of people driving by all the time.  In the first 15 minutes someone had picked up the glider rocker.  It took a few hours and someone took the sofa and loveseat.  I’m happy that they went to someone’s house and will get some more use.    We still have a refrigerator and a ping pong table to sell and 2 window air conditioners to sell before we move yet.  I think that I will try to sell them on Craig’s list.

We have moved countless times across country, so our family is not new to the stresses of moving.  It still doesn’t make it any easier though.   This move we have really involved everyone much more than in the past moves.  In the house hunting everyone has been involved in choosing our place to live.  For me the real stress is to come though.  The packing and moving part doesn’t really bother me too much.  I think the most stressful part is getting adjusted to the new town.  Finding a new church, making new friends, finding new doctors, making new friends is what bothers me the most in moves.  It is also a great opportunity to look at areas in our life that we want to improve on, and make those changes.

I am very excited for the fresh start for our family.  

The hunt is over finally

In my last post I was pretty positive that we have found the right home for us.  I was pretty excited but in the end it didn’t end up working out for us.  I was really bummed because I seemed to fit all of our needs except it turned out that they didn't like cats.  Brenna has had her cat for 10 years, and we just were not going to give her up.

This week was stressful once again in that I felt like I was starting from scratch looking for a place to live.   Brenna and I started to take trips up to Rock Hill and started looking again, between Craig’s list and local rental companies.  Each time we go up there it is such a long day, it is a 2 ½ hour drive each way and after the week before taking 3 trips up there I really was not interested in doing a trip on Monday in any way.  Monday we didn’t find much that interested us, Wednesday we found 2 houses that interested us but we couldn’t look at the inside but I called and made appointments to look at them on Friday. 

Brenna and I drove up Friday and got to the 1^st house to look at and as we were looking in the windows waiting for the person to come and show us the house I got a email from her that she was sorry for the short notice but she had rented it this morning.   We went and got the new listings from the few local rental companies and sat and had lunch feeling pretty low that we were having such a hard time finding home.   After lunch we took a drive by a few homes on the lists killing time before seeing the last house at 6pm.  We met the person at the house just before 6pm, she seemed like such a nice lady.  She opened up the house and we took a walk around it.  The last renter had just moved out and had left it so clean.   We had seen this house from outside and really like it, and the inside was just as nice.  So we decide to rent this one.  It is funny it really doesn’t fit all our needs like some of the other houses that we have looked out.  It is  not close to Brenna’s school, and is not in the school that we thought we wanted for Christa.  But it works for the animals and is in a great area to live and really quiet.  It sits on 7 acres of land.  It yard makes our current yard tiny, I’m so glad we have a riding mower! I will be putting it to a good use now.   It turns out that this house is really opposite of what we were looking for but it turned out to be perfect match for our needs.  Our struggle for find the right place to live is finally over, now the next struggle of getting packed and moved is yet to come.

                                                            

Change is in the air.

With fall coming change seems to be in the air.  Working for a commercial cargo airline I am used to change in my life.  Currently we are looking for a new place to live in Rock Hill, SC our oldest will be attending college at Winthrop.  It sure adds a unique stress in trying to find a place that meets everyone’s needs.    Between having pets, trying to be within walking distance of the college and being close to a good middle school we sure have a tall order for a house to rent J   In the past when we have moved it has always been because of my job changing.  With my current job it is nice that we have the option of living almost anywhere we want.  That sure makes it nice for our family at the current time.

 Brenna and I looked at several houses yesterday and think we finally have a handle on 2 houses that would fit our families need. Here is our favorite one.

Change is also in the air for my job as well.  For the last year I have been traveling and working at the McGuire AFB.  I really enjoy the areas and it really has become my home away from home.  I stay in New Hope, PA and is such a great town.  I have met some great friends there and have made it my  2nd Home for sure.  I am so looking forward to getting back there.  It looks like for the next couple of months I may not be spending as much time in my 2^nd home though.  I will be helping cover JFK base and working on getting my airport badge for Anchorage, AK and Chicago, IL as well.    I do have fond memories of the Anchorage airport, and when we lived there we really did enjoy the area!  When we lived there I really did work way too much, I always had 2 or 3 jobs at once.  Because of this I was not home much and we didn’t get to enjoy the area as much as we should have though L.      I am hoping that I can get back to my routine of staying 18 days a month at my 2^nd home though.  I really like having a constant in my life, so now having the job changing and home house changing it does add a bit of stress in life for sure.

I know that in the past change has always been good for myself and our family so I am really looking forward to what the new changes will bring.