Some of you may recall…our phone number used to belong to a business. One that apparently went out of business. Without letting customers know. Without fulfilling contracts and paying debts. During at least one full year after moving here, we received daily calls. They started off just seeking the business. After awhile, they began to lean toward being angry. Finally, the lawyer calls began.
“We’re not them,” we’d say. No one seemed to believe us, especially the lawyers. But the calls tapered off, and eventually I lost interest in changing the number - as in, I lost interest in all the work one must do when changing a phone number. But the calls have begun again. It’s as if this is a cold case someone has decided to pick back up.
Still, to be honest, I’m too busy to really spend time on the changing…except, now we’re moving. So, it seems like a rather perfect time to do it!
I’ve become something of a Craigslist.org stalker. Ever since discovering I could find more available houses in my area there than in the weekly newspaper, I’ve checked it at least a dozen times a week. Finally, something paid off. The perfect little cozy house with an apartment. You see, the eldest hates his own apartment (and the landlord seems to want to raise the rent without notice), and you have to know how much I’ve been wanting to move from our current house, so it seems we have come to the perfect solution.
We put down the deposit Sunday and should be moving within 2-3 weeks. The best parts? The view of Pikes Peak from the dining room; enough bedrooms to have an office again; a workroom just for the husband; and a yard!!!
It’s funny, because I had just written about using this space as our own anyway, but I knew the whole time I was still keeping an eye out for something else. Sometimes you just don’t feel settled where you are, you know? Which is something I’ve always wrestled with, because you should try to bloom where you’re planted. But should you? Always? Maybe bloom a little, but it’s hard to put down those roots when you don’t feel the place you’re in is HOME.
We’re looking at 7 more years here, before the kids are all out of school, before we can travel and/or move to our next place. So this long-term move makes mucho amounts of sense. And it’s win-win…I’m so excited!
Except for the part where we actually have to do the moving…
If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown
