{"id":4420,"date":"2012-09-04T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2012-09-03T22:33:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T03:33:33","slug":"thankful-tuesday-pre-move-moving-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2012\/09\/thankful-tuesday-pre-move-moving-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Tuesday: Pre-Move Moving Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\nWe did it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">The movers showed up Friday morning and took all our possessions away to some secret lair in California, where our things will sit until November. Our selves, our cat and our suitcases all showed up Friday afternoon at the temporary house (what I\u2019ve taken to calling our \u201cfake house\u201d). And after one long Friday night (the cat and the oldest boy had trouble sleeping), everyone seemed to adjust pretty quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4424\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our living room in boxes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Besides a jaw that won\u2019t stop clenching and some stress-induced chin acne, I think I\u2019m adjusting as well. No major mama-tear-fests yet either.<\/p>\n<p>It helps that our weekend was full in the best way. Here is the play by play of all the Pre-Move Moving Weekend Thankfuls<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introducing my UT sophomore small group girls to their new leader, who is going to be the very best. So grateful to feel hopeful and excited about her and their future as a little community.<\/li>\n<li>Movers who were kind and funny and happy to engage with us.<\/li>\n<li>Our dear next-door neighbors (who we will really miss) who played with my kids at the park Friday morning while the movers took over the house.<\/li>\n<li>Caroline, who is the greatest babysitter and whose generosity to us knows no bounds.<\/li>\n<li>How saying goodbye to a place is both heart breaking and healing. I\u2019m grateful that when we leave a space, it\u2019s empty and not itself without us. Does that make sense? Even though someone else will move in, it\u2019s not our house anymore because our presence made it what it was to us. I may not be explaining this very well. I\u2019ll have to ruminate on it awhile and get back to you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4422\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One last pic in front of the house on moving day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The distraction of a new, empty house to run around in. (It also helps that there\u2019s hardly any furniture or toys to bang into while running. It also echoes a lot. Should I be thankful for that?)<\/li>\n<li>The sweetness of having August\u2019s favorite next door neighbor (from the old house, as opposed the fake one), Ashlyn, over for an all-afternoon\u00a0play-date\u00a0on Saturday. August asked me a couple of weeks ago if she can be his wife when he grows up. He will be sad to leave her.<\/li>\n<li>My husband modeling to my son how to be generous to friends. On Saturday morning, he took August to pick out a present for Ashlyn\u2026something she can remember him by. He picked a shark. Obviously.<\/li>\n<li>The goodness of seeing a woman from church pull up in my (fake house) driveway Saturday afternoon with a carpet for the boys to play on in the empty, titled living area and a push toy for my baby.<\/li>\n<li>Another friend arriving with blocks and trains. Such a gift for my boys who have one bin of toys to last them the month.<\/li>\n<li>The chance to share a little of my journey with prayer with my kindred friend and college roommate Jamie\u2019s Sunday School class this past Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>A party at Jamie\u2019s house with her parents and grandparents and our kids and Michele, our roomie from college and her sister. And the best fried chicken OF ALL TIME. And a sweet mini-roomie reunion over espresso shakes (Yes, I convinced them to partake) at one of my favorite spots in Austin. \u00a0(One of the greatest parts of being in Austin this year has been the gift of reconnecting with friends from college I\u2019ve so rarely seen since I moved away ten years ago. I savored every moment Sunday night.)<\/li>\n<li>A Sunday afternoon nap AND a Monday afternoon nap! Yes, the world is sometimes kind to tired mamas.<\/li>\n<li>Labor Day on a weekend where we desperately needed an extra day off.<\/li>\n<li>A friend\u2019s birthday party Monday morning in which August got to experience the bliss of pi\u00f1ata bashing and candy feasting.<\/li>\n<li>Brunch with our friends Ray and Danielle who were in town from New York this weekend for a wedding.<\/li>\n<li>Fajitas with our Canadian-transplant friends here in Austin. Laughing and watching our kids run and blessing the evening together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve been thankful together, friends. I want to know: How about you? What are you thankful for? Tell us in the comments or link your own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/thankful-tuesday-2\/because-tuesdays-are-for-thankful\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Thankful Tuesday<\/a> post up there. I hope your Labor Day (if you had one) was restful and full of grace.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did it. The movers showed up Friday morning and took all our possessions away to some secret lair in California, where our things will sit until November. Our selves, our cat and our suitcases all showed up Friday afternoon at the temporary house (what I\u2019ve taken to calling our \u201cfake house\u201d). 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