Makes Family Move 2010, complete! After hours of moving and cleaning and sleeping and moving some more and then driving 700 miles north (over two days), we landed in Vancouver, Washington around 6:30 on Sunday 10/10/10. Pretty cool date to mark a very big change in our family history. I hadn’t realized that would be our arrival date until I signed the papers to rent a 16 foot moving truck. Into which we needed to fit all our worldly possessions. Uh huh.
Our journey north has begun. I’ve got a couple of photo posts coming your way to fill the gap while we schlep our lives to Washington state.
These past months have been filled with activity, re-uniting with old friends and connecting with new ones, solidifying family bonds and laying some professional ones to rest. I’m so grateful to have lived in this place, to have relationships with these amazing people, to feel safe enough to fly the nest for another adventure.
And you, imaginary reader, thank you for taking the time. See you on the flipside.
After 3.5 months of goodbyes, our relocation is immenent. Reality has sunk in. What seemed like such a logical decision with 100 days to go is now almost mission: impossible. The emotion of our decision is mixing with the exhaustion of packing, preparation, cleaning and loose end wrapping. But, in 1 week, I will be able to sleep in and have a play day with KidMakes and PapaMakes, and dinner with MakesInLaw. That’s a big carrot.
Goodbye to Santa Cruz and California. Thank the gods for photography.
Caregiving for a loved one, whether they are dying or not, can rate with crossing the Gobi on the scale of difficult things one may have to do. Many deaths offer gifts, to the dying person and their family. Some deaths are fraught with difficulty and resistance. I pray to experience only the former.
Working for hospice, it is our mission to help these people as much as we can. To treat them all with compassion and respect, and let them lead the way.
Every Tuesday at my work we have a meeting to check in about our current patients and their families. This is from a handout we received in the meeting from a Chaplain. Read More
We’re living in the land of ‘oh crap we’re moving in x weeks’ here at HouseMakes. Packing and cleaning and visiting and garage selling and planning to move life to another state.
It’s a wonderful opportunity to be thankful for this place and these people and how much of me is a product of their influences. Sometimes you don’t know what you have till it’s gone, so I’m grateful for the time to mindfully appreciate what is here for me, for my family, if/when we should return. (We gotta visit…)
Stay tuned, imaginary reader, a new door is opening, through which the chance to ask the question, ‘What do I want my life to be like?’
As the Makes family prepares to relocate 700 miles to the North, I find myself taking more pictures of our current city/county.
While not perfect, Santa Cruz County is one of the most beautiful places on earth, with great diversity of experience to be had in a small radius. In 90-120 minutes, you can be in the big city, the snow, the desert, the forest, the mountains, the ocean, or the amusement park.
I know the city/region we are moving to is wonderful as well, but I’m glad to have some time to savor the experience of this place, and to take some pictures.
ETA: Photo show after the jump.
We have decided to move 700+ miles to the North. To the Portland/Vancouver area. In October.
Yes you read that right. October 2010.
I’m breathing deeply through the anxiety of change.
So much to be done in the short time we have. And summer always goes by at light speed. Here I will chronicle my attempt to carry out this change in a mindful way.
I want this change, but am terrified by it. I know we will be successful, with awareness of the odds of unemployment. We have family in the area that I know will support us, but it’s hard to ask so much of them. But the chance to live near each other again is very exciting. I’m having trouble sleeping, of the day-before-first-day variety.
A new place. A new life. What do I want this new life to be like?
From some of our recent adventures around the Monterey Bay area. We were fortunate to attend a wedding in Seaside/Monterey, overlooking the ocean. A very well-timed mini vacation. Congratulations to the happy couple!
