SOLD

My house has been on the market since September and this past weekend it finally sold. I am bittersweet about this whole thing. I love this house, albeit is too small for our expanding family, but I love it. We have a huge yard, front and back and a fenced in portion for our dogs to run. We have an above ground pool which makes Midwestern Summers that much more bearable, I have a garden, and and a wonderful recycled clothes line (we salvaged from a neighbor's yard).
Our new house is wonderful, this will be the first house I have ever purchased, and I am excited. But to get to the heart of the matter, I am resistant to CHANGE. Yeah, that six letter word scares the bejebbers outa' me. I am a creature of habit, and change makes me anxious. We have 4 weeks to be out of this house, and I had already moved some of the clutter out when we put this house on the market, and I have already begun packing, but I am scared. I am scared, really scared, I am leaving my fire department, I am moving nearer to Mr. Anti-Hippie's family, and I am moving farther from my good friend Earth Muffin. It is rumored that this new town we are moving to, does not allow girls on their fire department and that also makes me anxious. The fire department that I am leaving, is wonderful, they are supportive of all the women on the department, since we are a farming community I have been to plenty of fires where the majority of us were females. Once a guy even commented on the fact that there were 5 women on scene, and he asked if there were any men in our department. My Chief told the guy that yeah there were but the five of us were tough enough to put out any fire, and we were efficient and got the job done, but I digress. I want to be a fire fighter in the town we are moving to, but I might have to file a sexual discrimination suit first, and that also scares me.

Our new house has more square footage and it is in a nice neighborhood. We have a Koi fish pond in the back yard, and a custom kitchen with an ironing center, but I will miss this little house here in BH, and all the memories that were made here.

• Having a first date here with Mr. Anti Hippie

• Moving in with Mr. Anti Hippie (Eddy Haskel got his own room and bathroom)

• Mr. Anti Hippie proposing to me in the kitchen August 25, 2005

• Getting married (at my parent's house really close to here November 5th, 2005)

• Movie Nights

• Mother's Day (my favorite Holiday, in fact the only holiday I really celebrate)

• Preparing for Baby Gnat's arrival

• Bringing home Baby Gnat

I know that change is inevitable and it too will bring about good things, but I am a Leo I am stubborn and resistant. Over the next few weeks as I pack up our lives and prepare our new house to become our new home, I will become very sentimental as I go through boxes of memories. As I reflect upon change and changing, I hope to become less resistant over the next few weeks and with the prospect of Spring on the horizon, I can only hope that many more memories are to be made with in the walls of our new home.