A New View

It's been a busy couple of months... and now here I sit in my new study/guest room which still has some moving boxes staring at me and a closet that needs organizing. But, here I sit... 

So much has changed in such a short time. 

We have walked our old property for the last time, gazed out of the backyard window for the last time, and locked the front door, for the very last time. Our dear house is no longer ours. A new family has purchased it and yesterday was their possession date. 

And we have moved. A new chapter in our lives has begun.

A couple of months ago, our eldest son and his wife decided to purchase a beautiful riverfront acreage home in a rural part of our fair city, about 15 minutes east of where we lived.  So, really not that far. 

They asked us if we'd consider moving into the daylight basement. It didn't take us too long, after we had viewed the property and suite, to accept the invitation. Riverfront property, walkout suite, being near our grandkids, and some perks for my husband, like a huge shop. How could we say no? 

So, we've been very busy preparing our home to sell, downsizing, and then packing up, unpacking, and setting up. We are TIRED! But we are both feeling very happy with the move. 

We have talked about moving for about five years now, but there was nothing that we had seen that excited us. So we stayed put. Until now. 

Some may say we're too young to make this type of change, but I remember reading in an excellent book on strategies for healthy living into our senior years, that it is wise to downsize before you are forced to. 

We have gone through all of our belongings and sold, given to family or friends, and donated to charity what we didn't want or couldn't keep.  Mind you, we do have room in this home to store a good number of bins, which had made this change possible. 

Each morning I look out of the kitchen window above the sink. It's a new view from the one I've had for 28 years, but I'm liking it. So far, so good.