More about Moving

In about a week I’ll be moving! While I am wildly excited about this, I am also feeling wistful and sad. My little white house is so nice and familiar, and throughout the past week it has been difficult to say goodbye to a multitude of hard working music students and good friends, many of whom are also moving in the next few months (the curse of a career in medicine). Although I moved to central Wisconsin VERY reluctantly and really quite grumpily, it has become a familiar place to me now. I don’t really relish my certain future of having to look at a map everytime I leave my house and of driving in circles trying to find pretty much every place I need to go. It takes me over a year to get acclimated to a completely new community, and sometimes a year can feel like a long time when you’re right smack in it. But, having gone through this many times before, at least this time I know that in a few weeks I’ll feel a lot better, snug inside my new house and looking out the window with more optimism.

Yesterday I cleaned at a most frenzied pace for 14 hours straight. Yes, 14 hours. (I went to bed completely exhausted last night!) My kids were so well behaved, I could hardly believe it! Last night and this morning a few people came to look at our current house, and as I’ve mentioned before, I’m really NOT a good housekeeper, so I had a major task ahead of me. (They’ve come and gone and my kids have made a mess of things again now). At the end of the night I was especially in love with my little white house in its super clean and sanitary state. There are so many parts of it that I love and will miss, even though it is a bit crowded for our family now, especially in the winter. I have loved having an attic bedroom, something I always wanted when I was a little girl. I’ve loved my stamping and paper area in the furnace room even though the last few weeks I have hardly been able to find it hiding behind floor to ceiling tubs of kids clothes. I have especially love, love, loved my backyard with its three giant shade trees .

Here are some flowers that students and friends have given me this week. Some of my students even gave me packages of sticky notes to use with my future students in Minnesota! I’ll miss them so much.