Gone
After I dropped Gracie off at school this morning, I went over to the apartment to finish up the very few things that were left to do over there.
I simply had to clean out the fridge, and go through some things in storage. It didn't take too long, and after I went back and picked Gracie up from school I started thinking: that wasn't so hard. Not the labor, well that wasn't so hard either; but leaving that empty apartment.
We lived in those walls for 6 years. Garren started his first day his new job there, we brought both our babies home from the hospital there, I waddled around pregnant on those floors for 18 months there, we had countless fights and countless kisses there, we celebrated 6 anniversaries there, our parents visited us there, Gracie got bumps and bruises there. And still, I walked away without a tear. Me, who cries at just about everything. Me, who hates change. Me who is less than 3 months post pardum and very hormonal!
When I asked Garren about this he simply smiled, and for one of the few times I accepted his answer without question.
Those empty walls didn't make me cry because they weren't our home. Our home went with us.
I simply had to clean out the fridge, and go through some things in storage. It didn't take too long, and after I went back and picked Gracie up from school I started thinking: that wasn't so hard. Not the labor, well that wasn't so hard either; but leaving that empty apartment.
We lived in those walls for 6 years. Garren started his first day his new job there, we brought both our babies home from the hospital there, I waddled around pregnant on those floors for 18 months there, we had countless fights and countless kisses there, we celebrated 6 anniversaries there, our parents visited us there, Gracie got bumps and bruises there. And still, I walked away without a tear. Me, who cries at just about everything. Me, who hates change. Me who is less than 3 months post pardum and very hormonal!
When I asked Garren about this he simply smiled, and for one of the few times I accepted his answer without question.
Those empty walls didn't make me cry because they weren't our home. Our home went with us.
May God richly bless all of you in your new home!
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