Moving Day: Two Days Away.

Note: This was written Nov. 21,2007--two days before our move to the white house. We didn't yet have the internet and were moving back and forth. I wrote these thoughts down and now record them here. I sometimes still miss the cabin...I suppose I'll always miss it a little. We had so many great times there...many firsts...lots of great memories.

We have practically everything that is portable by car moved to the new house. It took some time--and 348093289032 trips, but everything is pretty much over to the house aside from the larger furniture and the things we need daily.

The cabin looks so bare and our voices are beginning to echo from the emptiness. I know that Rajah and Niko are confused and are wondering what in the &*$#*%@ is going on. Raj especially--he gets nervous when we get out the suitcases for a weekend trip let alone with boxes and boxes of things from the cabin and do not take him with us. He loves his people, that's for sure. But he loves his routine more...and we are disrupting this. How dare we upset his little world.

This move is proving to be bittersweet. I love the new house and I'm thrilled about the move. But you know...I am going to miss our little cabin. It's the first place Corey and I ever lived and I will always have a special place in my heart it. It's where we started our family.

The new house will have new memories and more expeirences, I know. We will build onto our story and (hopefully) our children will begin their stories in this home. There will be many, many retellings of this house and its stories in years to come.

But I'll never forget the first time I walked into that little cabin either. How I knew right away that this is where we were going to begin. I loved every little corner, every nook and cranny in that cabin that everyone thought was just to small to manage. I even came to love the winding staircase with the crooked steps. We did outgrow that cabin. But we made it work for nearly two happy years. Things started getting cramped and crowded in the last few months, and we are now considering children. These are some of the reasons why we have to move on.

You always have to have your first step somewhere. We have been very blessed. We have each other and the memories we have made together. Our first steps.

We got our start in a little cabin on a hill.