The Move

I have a confession to make - I love moving. I always have. I like the way living spaces look without all the day to day clutter. Everything is clean and simple, the bare bones-edness of that first night when you go to bed exhausted, fully satisfied with just clean underwear and a toothbrush. I like the simplicity and spaciousness that exist in those first few days. I like the straightforwardness of the tasks - clean, pack, carry, unpack, fold, put away, stack the boxes. Moving is good, earnest work, it wears you out and you sleep well at the end of it.

You sleep well, that is, unless you are three. In which case you will stay awake until ten every night! Actually, Jacob is adapting really well to being in the Little While House. He is such a lover of routine that I was worried, but he's taken it all in stride. Apart from struggling a bit at bedtime, he has really done great.

Despite the long days we are all feeling very happy and relaxed - the hard parts are all behind us - we've sold the house, gotten our money, moved into the temporary house and now all we have to do is relax and shop while the new one is finished. We are already really liking being further down on a cul de sac, we've clocked a lot of hours in the front yard and drive way of the rental and so I am even more excited now about being at the back of a cul de sac on our real house. Will jokes about this because the back yard is so big on the new house and yet he knows that I will spend a lot of time in the tiny front yard. I tell him this my Mexican-ness and he shouldn't try to understand or change me! :)


If you ever watch the HGTV show "Sleep On It" our lives are kind of like an extended version - there are things we love about our rent house (huge pantry, covered back porch, air conditioning that rocks compared with our old house) and things we really don't care for at all (hall bath is cramped, living room is a mustard yellow sponge paint). We are incredibly blessed to have a house to rent for these next few weeks but also terribly grateful that it isn't permanent.

Our "Little While House"


The Not-So- Mellow Yellow Living Room



Our Big New House is coming along great, they have finished all the brick and stone and put up the cedar timbers and when we came around the corner to see it my breath caught in my throat - I just LOVE it so much! I don't have any photos yet of the finished facade, but here are a few from last week as the stone and brick was just going up -

The front -



The side of the house -