home is wherever i’m with you

i haven’t written much {at all} about our move. it’s not a big move. in fact it’s small-ish…in a big-ish way. the new house is only two miles south of us, but double the size of our home where we’ve lived for the past 7 years. my emotions have been a volatile concoction, much like a whirlpool; excitement surfaces only to be yanked under when sadness and sentimentality draws itself above the water. swirling. twirling. but today, today when it seems really real. when keys are in our hands. i’m overwhelmed with the memories of this house, our house. i look around me as i type and recognize that this is probably the last post i’ll write here. the last couple nights we’ll sleep in the house where we welcomed three precious babes into the world. our last days playing in our adorable little yard complete with sandbox, turf, fireplace and the pool where turbo learned to swim. it was our first house, our first place after we were married. our first leap into the ‘real’ world. our haven. our corner of the world. our home.

it’s hard to leave. but it’s time. it’s time for a change. to shake things up. to get into a house where we don’t feel as though we’re living in claustrophobia on a day to day basis. where the boys have a little more room for crazy and i have a little more room for sanity. it’s a good thing. really. and when i do start to feel those sad and sentimental memories creep to the surface, i figure, in a weird way, it’s a good thing. it’s a GOOD thing i’m sad and sentimental because it means i’ve been blessed with the meaningful, heartfelt, wonderful memories we’ve made here that are creating these feelings. and they are everywhere i look in this house we’ve called home. everywhere.

if i step back and take a second glance at these memories, at this house, it’s easy to see that though the house was a part of it, my family was ALL of it. and like one of my favorite songs says, *home* is wherever i’m with you…

{lover and i just after buying our house. july 2005}

and you…

and you…

and you…

while we leave our literal *home*, i load 4 people up into my car and drive them, my *home*, to our new house!

xoxo,