The past few weeks have been really bittersweet for the Reeves V family. On the one hand, I am so thrilled to tell you that we are now once again homeowners!! Yes, we were crazy enough to attempt moving with two small children at Christmastime. First order of business in the new house - get everyone's beds set up. Second order of business - get the tree/stockings up! We managed to get the important stuff put away in the past two weeks, but it's been interesting. The kitchen's pretty well in tact, as are the girls' rooms (sorry Anna, I have a few more boxes hanging out in your room right now, but you can't go through them like your big sister, so that's why they are in your room!) Our room is definitely on its way - I get distracted going through all these boxes because I literally haven't seen some of this stuff in two years since we left Gainesville. Part of me says that's a big clue that we could get rid of it if I've been able to live without it for two years, but the other part of me feels like I'm re-opening all my wedding presents again! :)
Of course, with the move comes leaving Cedar Bluff. We've been there for almost right at two years. There's been a LOT that went on in those past two years as well:
-Leave Gainesville, which was way harder than I ever thought, seeing as how I pretty much hated the place when I moved there
-Move in with Jerry's parents (literally - we were in his childhood bedroom for the first 7 months!)
-Start a new job
-Have surgery for Crohn's
-Carrie started her school and has really thrived there
-Jerry got a new job that we knew would require him being in Portugal for EIGHT months
-Moved from Jerry's room to the cottage on the Reeves' property
-Went to China for two weeks
-Was back from China for about a week and a half and found out I was pregnant!
-11 days after finding out about Baby #2, Jerry leaves for Portugal
-Sold our house in GNV! My poor father in law - he had to go with me (on Valentine's weekend, no less, and help pack up the remainder of the stuff in GNV)
-Had to go to ER because of my Crohn's acting up (and my wonderful inlaws came to rescue me since I couldn't drive!)
-Had to go to ER because I fell down chasing Carrie in the Bluffton post office (she accompanied me that time and still to this day says "Mommy fell down and had to go to the doctor")
-Went to Portugal to visit Jerry while 28 weeks pregnant
-Jerry returned home; 8 days later Anna Sophia made her early arrival!
-Finally bought a house of our own
-Got into a car accident (that actually just happened this morning and I had to throw that in there - it's an attempt to laugh to keep from crying about it, folks)
Whew! That's a lot of stuff for two years. I don't think Jerry and I will ever be able to repay Whizzy and Pop-Pop for all the support they've offered throughout this entire experience. When we were first considering a move we knew the only way we could do it was to either sell the house in GNV immediately (yeah, right) or move in with them in the interim. They never once hesitated and have driven car pool, babysat, and the list goes on. I know part of them loves to do this since it means more time with the grandchildren, but still - that was a huge commitment to take on when they were about to reclaim their house as their own when Rhett went off to college!
My parents have been amazing as well. I know my mother has to be tired of me calling with real estate questions. Too bad she didn't get a commission off every single call I made to her asking fifty thousand questions :) They made trips to SC during the time when Jerry was gone to entertain me. I always called my dad whenever I had an IT question since my usual IT department was 6 hours ahead of me. They really supported our decision, even if attempting to sell a house in the current market wasn't the wisest decision ever (hindsight and all that).
So we will soon have all of our stuff out of the cottage at Cedar Bluff and be busy finding a place for it all (or sending it to Goodwill!) in our new home. We'll clean out the cottage one last time and close that chapter of our lives. I know Jerry will never believe this, but the other day when I was over there and I walked into the cottage I was surprised to find myself a little sad. It represents a pretty significant point in our lives, and I will miss being able to walk out the back door and go have a glass of wine with Whizzy & Pop Pop and chat about the day or borrow their roasting pan to make BBQ.
Bye bye little cottage!
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