Beginning the Move

My husband and my father-in-law are somewhere in the U.P. right now, hauling most of our stuff to Michigan.  We sorted through the basement and cleared almost everything out.  The stuff we're keeping is in the truck and trailer that Eli's dad is graciously letting us use to transport it all, and later tonight it will end up at the lakehouse where we're moving in October.  The move has officially begun!

Caleb and Kai were "helping" despite having no idea what was going on.  The greatest stress in this whole process is wondering how they'll handle the multiple transitions ahead of us.  Our life will change a lot in the next year and they'll be in the middle of it all.  But we're hoping and praying their young ages will be an asset in helping them adapt well to each new change.  And we'll all be together.  As we've spent this year thinking about the changes ahead of our family, an adage we've created for ourselves is: "When we're together, we're home."  And this will be true, whether we're in Minnesota or Michigan or Africa.  Home is not just the residence we live in or the yard we play in or even the bed we sleep in.  Home, for us, will mean a number of things in the years to come, but mostly it will mean each other.  And for that we are grateful.

So we are preparing to move on from this house in a couple months, and move on to new places and new people and new adventures!  And our kids will get a front-row seat to it all.  Our stuff, on the other hand, which is headed to Michigan as I type this, will be sidelined as we venture forth.  Because our stuff can be here or there or anywhere, but as long as we're with each other we'll be home!