What I Learned from Moving (again)…
For those of you that follow us on Twitter or Facebook, it’s not news to you that we have moved this week. The house that we moved into in July 2009 was a rental house. The owners of the house wanted to sell it, and we didn’t want to buy it. So we found a house, and planned on moving within 30 days. When I met with our property manager, he said we could go ahead and be out by the 31st. Which gave us 12 days.
It has been crazy.
We don’t have Internet at our new house until Monday…so our blog posting times may be a little inconsistent. We’ll be back to our regular schedule hopefully next week.
This is Trisha and my 13th move in 15 years of marriage. Some of those were from one apartment to another, 7 of those were to different cities. We are done moving. We want to die in this house. (It too is a rental, but we have an option to buy it! Yea!)
So today, I thought I’d share with you a few things that I learned while moving on Tuesday.
1. We have more than we need.
We sold a bunch of stuff on Craigslist before we moved, we took a ton of stuff to the Goodwill before we moved, but we still have more than we need. I think it’s easy to forget this, at least for me, when I compare my stuff to other’s stuff. I tend to compare my stuff to people who have more than I do, and rarely compare my stuff to the billions of people who live below poverty. I was reminded how much I have and how thankful I should be.
2. I long for home.
When we moved to Nashville last year, we moved from our dream home. We felt at home in our Indiana house. We loved the schools, our neighbors, the location. But more than anything else, it felt like home. When we walked into this house a few weeks ago, Trisha said to me, “This feels like home.” I long for that feeling. Sadly, I’ve never stayed anywhere long enough to make this feeling a long lasting reality. I am praying that changes with this move. My kids long for home…Trisha longs for home. I think we are home.
3. We’re blessed with amazing friends.
I knew this…I was just reminded of this. The list is too long to type of how many people helped us move. We started moving at 4pm on Tuesday…by 8pm everything was out of our old house and in our new house. We had about 20 different people do all kinds of things…paint all day before we moved; clean our cabinets and bathrooms; load our stuff; bring their trucks and trailers so we didn’t have to rent a truck; bring us food; take our kids for pizza and Laser Tag so they weren’t bored out of their mind; put our beds together; clean our old house; celebrate with us!
We were blown away with the love and generous hearts of our friends. As I was drifting to sleep about 1:30 AM on Wednesday morning, I just thanked God for our friends.

