good-bye Belhaven

Well, moving day finally came and went. As easy as it was to sell our house, we had to end up getting out before our new house was ready. We think we have 3 weeks till we can move, so our gracious friends Carol Anne and Daniel invited us to stay with them until that time. Leaving Belhaven was very sad for me. For 6 years, I have lived in Belhaven and 4 of those years were at 1512 Lyncrest Avenue. I have loved every minute of my time in that house....of course Rob always likes to throw out the "not so good times" such as....the fire that sent me and my cousin Lindsay to a hotel for a month, the central heat and air going out during the middle of the Mississippi summer heat, the lightning that stuck the house and killed our microwave and dishwasher, the tree limb that fell and split parts of our desk, a water pipe busting under the house, the unknown animal that died in our bedroom wall and left a smell you would only think could be in hell... Even through all of that, it was still very hard for me to pack up and leave what has been some of the best years of my life. This move has nearly killed us...especially Rob who couldn't think of a worse time (tax season) to be moving. We didn't realize how much stuff we had. We ended up giving a lot to the Salvation Army and by the end of the box packing, we were just throwing things into the pod without even putting it in boxes. We ended up having to get two pods! A few days after we left, I had to go back to give our buyers something. I didn't want to even go inside, but she wanted to show me what she had been doing. I figured that they would be painting over the lime green walls, b/c I completely understand that color is not for everyone, but when I walked in every wall was repainted. It made me sad at first to see "my" house so different, but to be completely honest...it looked great. That's when I realized that it's not "my" house anymore and it was time to let go. As a walked out the door, I didn't even look back. I waved good-bye at my sweet neighbor who was sitting on his roof and spun away in my loaded down "Jane Fonda Honda". That chapter in my life is over and now it's time for a new one. I'm looking forward to what this chapter holds:)