Moving

If I told you that I was not sad about moving I would be lying.  I mean the thought of moving gives me some really gut wrenching feelings.  I have thought about for weeks now.  I even think it has affected my sleep.

We bought this house in 2001.  It was a really big job when we bought it.  There was a hurricane in South Carolina in 1989 called Hugo.  You may have heard about it.  Well the people that lived in it before actually had damage from that hurricane and never repaired it.  There was also termite damage.  The entire perimeter seals had to be replaced due to termite damage.  There was also water damage to certain areas around windows and doors.

I wish I had documented more of what we did at that time but people were just not doing that kind of thing back then.  My husband had to actually jack our house up, take out the termite eaten perimeter seals.  It was a really big labor intensive job.  I thought they would never finish.  Some of our bedrooms were taken all the way down to the dirt floor under the house.  They replace the huge timbers around the outside perimeters with equally huge timbers.  He always tells me, “It ain’t nothin’ but wood baby.”  That kind of thing never worries him.  You could see the ground outside along the entire wall on the back side of the house.  Just due to constant water damage.  We replaced most of the windows.  Remodel the kitchen and changed the floor plan of the house to suit us.

My four children have grown up here.  I couldn’t tell you how many Christmas parties we had here and how many family suppers we have had.  I have had as many as 50 here for preprom dinners and 30 here for Easter dinners.  We survived the flood 3 years ago, with NO damage.  

Can you believe that picture?  The water was running like a river back there, but there was no damage.  It came up to the steps.  You see my hen-house out there? We had to get them in the garage.  My husband kept saying, “the water will NEVER get that high” .   Ha, it did get high.  It just kept rising and rising and rising that day, but we survived that as well.

Yesterday I started thinking a little differently though,  less about all the things we have done and more about all the things we can do in the future.

We have decided to buy another house that needs a little love.  It may not need as much love as this house did, but we will still try to make it our own.  Doing a few things at a time, fixing this and that.  We will paint and probably have to replace some wood somewhere along the way and you know what, I am looking forward to it. I am getting  just a little bit excited about it.  A sweet young family is going to buy our house and make more memories in it.  We are going to move on and make some more memories somewhere else.  The ones I have here in this house I will always cherish, but we will make more in the next place.  I will keep  you posted and when the plans are firm for our next adventure I will let you know all about it.