14 December 2023

We had a realtor visit our house yesterday and things are speeding up. They want to list our house at the beginning of next month, with the holidays it’s more realistic to push that back a week or two. There isn’t much work in the house that needs to be done, we’ll start packing person items into boxes right away so the house can be as empty as possible for staging photos. This weekend we’re going to visit our new location to look at properties over there. Leaving tomorrow for an impromptu trip. My brain has to section off different ways of living to stay sane, like this morning I have to get the baby to daycare which requires a tight schedule when she wakes up. Then tomorrow I’ll have to switch to travel mode, packing the car and unpacking to set up a temporary base camp. After we’ve landed my mind will be house hunting and land surveying. I think we’re only looking at houses with over five acres, so I will likely be doing a lot of walking through various terrains; better bring boots. After an exhausting day of looking at houses we’ll do it all in reverse, get back home, back to work preparing and packing. Whenever I begin to layout the individual steps they all seem small enough, I try to avoid letting myself see the big picture because that’s when it feels overwhelming. By selling in the Winter I don’t have to worry about mowing my lawn through this process. The flip side of that is whatever place we land on will look peaceful now, but will turn into a jungle during the Summer. That’s alright, I suspect I’m going to have to miss this first year’s growing season, maybe I can get some trees planted next Fall. After a year of settling I might have a tractor that will make short work of whatever brush begins to grow.