Day 1
I'm Judy, I'm a quilter and I just voluntarily put myself in the 3rd (out of 5) most stressful situation people can be in according to Healthstatus.com, I'm MOVING!
Moving household items, yeah, that will be hard, but moving my quilting stash, OMG!
My husband and I went on a vacation in the State of Washington and while on vacation we looked at houses. Well...we bought one. All the way home to Reno, in the car I kept saying "I'm afraid they won't take the offer" and my husband kept saying "I'm afraid they will". We were driving along the Hood Canal and couldn't get phone reception but we finally got an email saying the house was ours. Conversation in the car came to a screeching halt on that winding road as we both contemplated what this would mean to us. We called our Realtor in Reno to set up an appointment.
We got home 2 days later and started cleaning the house and yard so we could put our existing home on the market. We worked ourselves silly for a week, hired a painter and a handyman to help. Exhausted, we listed our home of 23 years.
The day after our house was listed I left for a week long Quilting Retreat at Lake Tahoe with my best friends. We call ourselves "Serenity Sisters". Seven fabulous women who quilt, laugh, eat and drink together each year at Lake Tahoe. As I drove to the retreat from Reno, the highway comes around the mountain and you get your first glimpse of the Lake, a view which literally takes your breath away, I knew everything was going to be OK.
Moving household items, yeah, that will be hard, but moving my quilting stash, OMG!
My husband and I went on a vacation in the State of Washington and while on vacation we looked at houses. Well...we bought one. All the way home to Reno, in the car I kept saying "I'm afraid they won't take the offer" and my husband kept saying "I'm afraid they will". We were driving along the Hood Canal and couldn't get phone reception but we finally got an email saying the house was ours. Conversation in the car came to a screeching halt on that winding road as we both contemplated what this would mean to us. We called our Realtor in Reno to set up an appointment.
We got home 2 days later and started cleaning the house and yard so we could put our existing home on the market. We worked ourselves silly for a week, hired a painter and a handyman to help. Exhausted, we listed our home of 23 years.
The day after our house was listed I left for a week long Quilting Retreat at Lake Tahoe with my best friends. We call ourselves "Serenity Sisters". Seven fabulous women who quilt, laugh, eat and drink together each year at Lake Tahoe. As I drove to the retreat from Reno, the highway comes around the mountain and you get your first glimpse of the Lake, a view which literally takes your breath away, I knew everything was going to be OK.
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| Lake Tahoe
I would talk with my "Sisters" about my move, about leaving my friends, leaving them, and work it out in my head. I'm back home now and there are no offers on the house, I already miss my friends and we haven't even left yet. I'm looking at that pile of quilting stash I've moved out to the garage and I'm starting to wonder, what have we done?
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