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moving/middle of the night

We're childfree for the first time in three and a half years since my parents took the bub for the night - we're packing and cleaning the house in preparation for moving in the morning. Several hours of work ahead of us still, but the house is empty and bright.

It's so funny to feel so light and present in this situation - nostalgic, happy to be doing this, for some reason. Maybe it's the novelty. Maybe it's because it's summer and I can drink as many beers as I want while doing this since it doesn't require too much of my brain to wash all the baseboards, wrap up the last glasses, hunker down here on the floor with the laptop while L walks around picking things up and humming something.

There's something here that's familiar but different too. The wind outside and the sound of running water in the fishtank. Your husband, humming. Your house in the middle of the night, empty, with all the lights on.

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Comment by Alan on July 25, 2010 at 9:14pm: Nice. I was sick as a dog when we left LA back in November. I regret not being more present for such a big event, leaving the first house we bought, put 12 years into, and had two babies in.

Comment by mcglory13 on July 26, 2010 at 5:48am: Where are you moving? Within the city, or to a new place? I'm glad you could enjoy the evening. :) I haven't yet managed to shake my preoccupation with what my child is doing (which is stupid, he'd probably be sleeping) to think about sending him elsewhere for a night. It is a strange thing to see your house empty, and to be in an empty house right before you fill it up with your stuff. There was a lot I was sad about losing from our first Austin house, but nothing from the second. :) This house I love... though I don't know quite why.

Comment by mightyninjamom on July 27, 2010 at 5:00pm: I hated my old house...but I was also sad to be leaving it. I walked through the rooms one last time. Remembered that both children were born in the same room, learned to walk in the same room and provided our pets with plenty of table food while learning to hold a fork. I lost three pregnancies there, and adopted two cats. We harbored fugitives a number of times - friends who needed a place to crash for a while until they had jobs to pay rent. I learned the right way to chop down a tree and that tomato plants love compost. I didn't like that house, but it had soul.

Comment by hermit crab on July 29, 2010 at 6:44am: Ha! We're on the other side! Yay!

McG - We moved inland about 1.5 hours for my new grown-up job! I got a full-time teaching job at a small liberal arts school here in-state - I think it's going to be great. We're living on a lake, which is ridiculous, and once I get all of my advisors in the country for long enough to sign my diss approval page and we get internet running at the house, life will be pretty damn awesome.

Comment by mcglory13 on July 29, 2010 at 5:59pm: HC, I am very, very, very jealous. Congrats. :) (so, so, so jealous. like, weeping into my wine jealous). :P

moving/middle of the night

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