Change and adjustment

Change is never easy. We think it will be easy, but it never is. There are always unresolved issues that disrupt everything. Our move is one of these things that we at first thought would be rather easy, but has turned out to have many hidden problems that we never anticipated. We thought at first, "Good Lord, this is our 26th move! What can go wrong?", but as things have evolved, we have discovered lots of things that have worried us silly. Happily, we have our kids, who have been gems in all of this. Heather was here last weekend helping us to pack. Melanie and Jennifer were here earlier doing the same thing. Now, as the time to move approaches, we are discovering that much of our lives are tangled up in all of this. We can hardly wait to get to Pittsburgh, to be twenty minutes away from two of our children, but getting there is the hassle.

The closing on our house is April 30, and the closing on the condo will be May 11 or 12. We will load our things on May 10, after getting back here from Washington, D.C. where we will attend Mitch and Gary's wedding, and I will assist. We barely have 24 hours before the moving truck arrives. Not much time to get all of the last minute things done. It will work out just fine. It is the timing that is the problem, not what we are doing. We have to keep that all in mind. I remember when we arrived at our Alpine Lake Cabin after retiring from Christ Church that the place was full of boxes and we had to create pathways to the chairs and the bathroom. It was a silly mess. We solved it by getting in the car and going to Hilton Head for two weeks. When we came home, we had clear heads and a willingness to attack the boxes and get ourselves settled into the cabin. It worked out wonderfully. The break was essential. We will probably have to do something similar this time. We will see how it all works out when we get to Pittsburgh and have the condo furnished what our spirits are like. We will probably need to take a break and go somewhere to settle ourselves out. When this happens, I know that we will be just fine, and our move will be complete. Fortunately, we have kids who will help us in all of this. Thank God for family.