Today is the 9th January. 22 days until we move. The packing is going really well but the sorting is going even better. There is nothing like decluttering and downsizing. I find it difficult to sell items I do not want. It is easier to give them away. I was never born to barter!
All of us have had to go through a cleansing time as we go through our papers and our memory boxes. 24 years in one place and for all my children the home they grew up in, had their 21st birthdays in, for the two oldest got married from. It is sad for them but they have moved on and it is our time too. We made sure they had roots that were solid and firm. Wherever we go that will be their home from home.
What is amazing to me is the wrench both of us are feeling at leaving the garden. We are very keen gardeners and have enjoyed planning, planting and living off our garden over the years. It will be exciting developing a new garden but in the old one every plant could tell a story. We have potted up a few of our old favourites and pray they will take but what we really will miss are the beautiful trees that afford us such absolute privacy and the birds we have encouraged to visit and stay over the years.
God Bless Millwood and guide all of us on our new journey.
