So, tonight is the last night in our house. We move everything out tomorrow. Earlier today I made a comment that I was not at all sad or sentimental about moving tomorrow. This evening I'm not so sure.
Tomorrow marks the beginning of a whole new life. Everything about our lives is going to change, and life will become like nothing we have known before. Don't get me wrong, I am so excited about it I could bust, but I suppose it would be strange if I didn't have some kind of less than excited feelings about leaving the place we have called home for over six years.
Six or seven years seems to be a catalyst point for R and I. We seem to make lots of big changes at about that interval. We had been in the Riverland for six or seven years when we decided to move back to Adelaide, we had our first child six years after becoming a couple and now we have been in Adelaide for a bit over six years and we are moving along again. I wonder then, will we travel for six or so years before we settle down again? Or will we find somewhere to stop and leave there again in another six years? Or could there be some other big event in six years? Time will tell I suppose.
Hmm, how life has changed since we first moved to Elizabeth Street. We were so full of excitement when we bought this house. We had two children and didn't think at that stage that we would be having any more, we were the text book family. We had been looking for a house for a few months by the time we found this one. We were smitten by it as soon as we saw it too. I remember coming for our inspection. Toby took off out the back door and spent the whole time we were here running up and down the driveway. We just loved it. It was perfect. Beautiful house, huge yard, huge verandah, lovely quiet cul-de-sac. What wasn't to love? We had decided within 5 minutes of leaving that we wanted this house and rang the real estate agent straight back. So, within 3 days of having gone on the market, the house was sold and it was ours. We were certain that this would be our long term home, our family home, the place our kids would grow up and always consider home. The place to put our roots down.
We have seen several other neighbours come and go from the street, but have been very lucky that, with the exception of one lot of tenants in the neighbours house who had a rather limited but always very loud and colourful vocabulary, all have been lovely. We have made some fantastic friends here and will remember our time in the street with smiles. Especially when reminiscing about christmas street parties and the friendly competition and banter around the light displays.
We made some changes to our house, but nothing major, window furnishings here, air conditioner there. The biggest change was probably to the front garden. We ripped out the existing garden with grand plans for the new one. However changing our minds several times delayed the process, as did a shortage of funds, and we are very grateful to our neighbours for putting up with our bare, dusty or muddy (weather dependant) dirt front yard for well over 12 months. Isn't it a shame though, that so often we only get our homes the way we always wanted them in time to sell them? Well, we do anyway. We had been saying for six years that we would paint throughout, but only did so when we decided to sell. We lived with an un-working dishwasher for several years, but replaced it with a working one so we could sell.
Well, life changes, circumstances change, and while there will be a tinge of sadness that life here didn't end up the way we had planned, we are very ready to leave and move along and we wont be looking back.
B
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