Last Night

Tonight I sit in this living room for the last time.

Tonight, we read bedtime stories and my girls are now dreaming away in this home...as they have since they came into this world for the last night.

Tonight, I wash my feet before slipping into sweet slumber of my own, in this home, for the last time. --you know I had to throw that in there ;)

Tonight, as part of our usual bedtime routine, Chad took the girls to our bedroom window to watch the trees outside...its something they have done since Brynn was old enough to stand. I didn't get a picture of tonight (dang it!), but here is an older one of Brynn and chad.



anyway, its something Chad did with Brynn and now does with both girls. they stand at the window and look outside and say goodnight to the trees, and the birds, and the grass, etc etc.

I watched this and it hit me that this was the last time they would be doing this here. And, although we are moving to a MUCH nicer, bigger, roomier, place...I can't help but feel a bit sad that we are leaving this place.

This is the home I brought my girls to after the hospital. This is the place I watch Brynn and Audrey grow from a new born to a baby to a toddler (well, not Audrey yet). Both of my girls had many first right here in this living room. Everywhere you look I see memories.

Actually, since I moved to California, this is the place I have lived the longest, so it feel most like "home" other than the home I grew up in...Its a little bitter sweet to be leaving.

Tomorrow, we move into our new home. The place we will raise our girls and watch them grow. The place we will make new memories: New Christmas mornings and Halloween nights, new birthday parties, and keggers (lol), New Milestones: Audrey's first steps, Brynn learning to ride a bike, new jokes, new laughs, new cries, and Blurb books upon Blurb Books of memories waiting to be filled!!!!

One last story before I shut down...one of my favorite memories to think back on...prob because I am still finding blue painters tape in various corners of the house...

The day after we closed on this home, I was 6 months pregnant with Brynn, we had my friends Kelly and Dan come over and we painted the ENTIRE down stairs in one day. we are talking all the walls, the ceilings (and we have cathedral ceilings here)...man it was a HUGE undertaking.

I remember Dan was playing his "angry music" it was like heavy metal or something and we were joking around that Brynn would end up being an angry child because of the music. And we kept saying stuff to give Dan a hard time like "why do I feel so angry all of sudden?" LOL!

And everyone was teasing me because I went to Home Depot for supplies a couple days before and the guy totally took me for a ride and I bought all kinds of stuff I didn't need and were not practical...including these goggles with some kind of windshield wiper type device on it. COMPLETELY ridiculous. Everyone laughed themselves silly when I pulled them out....ok, total Blondie moment on my part.

At the end of the day we were covered and I mean COVERED with paint...I think Kelly and I were still finding "Kelly Moore Oyster" in our hair for the next 3 months. It was a crappy project and one that I will never do again, but it is one memory that really sticks with me when I think about this house.