Unpacking Us

Yesterday was a BIG day at house.  We moved Jenny out.

It was kind of surreal...it still is.  She worked her little tail off on Sunday packing and moving clothes and boxes.  Then yesterday, the 3 of us had most of the day and we took trip after trip from our house to her apartment.  In all honesty, I thought the moving process would take weeks!  I thought, we would move her essentials and then slowly she would come get more of her stuff.  I was not expecting her to be completely out until the end of the month.  Well, most of her stuff is gone, even her stuff that is getting sold or donated.  There are a few things still at our house and I am sure we will keep finding little things.  But for all intents and purposes, Jenny & the kids are moved out.

Last night Stony and I pulled the couch together and put our tv back in the living room and we watched a moving on our couch for the first time...in I really do not know how long.  Stony went out and turned on the sprinkler and when he came back in I was crying.  He was so confused and didn't quite know how to react.  It was good cry I reassured him.  It was just the first time in such a long time that we had a chance to be just us.  And be us.  There was (relatively) no chance that anyone was going to walk in our front door, or watch the movie with us, or wake us up if slept on the couch, or... 

We got to unpack too.  All these little things that make us, us have been stored away for awhile.  Last night was a seemingly insignificant night as far as what actually happened...a shower and a movie...but how it happened and the space we were in was significant. 

Our house is a disaster, but that is okay.  We are going to take our time putting it back together the way we want it and cleaning as we go.  We are excited to start this next part of our lives.  We are praying for Jenny and the kids that this is a good time for them, enriching, encouraging and exciting.

So from me and Stony, cheers to a new season.