How I See It

Unexpected emotions

I am sitting in Sydney as I type. On Monday I got ready for work as usual and packed my bags, computer, camera etc..gave the dog a treat and Rich and I headed to the car to drive me to the airport. I was ahead of him, it was dark and as I waited by the car I looked back at our little home of 22 years and suddenly it hit me like a ton of bricks. This was my last trip to work from my home, my next flight I will be going to the airport from the new house. Suddenly my eyes welled up and I struggled not to cry (no time to reapply makeup LOL). Sadness engulfed me as I thought about the coming move. Not total sadness...I am excited about the new house and the new adventures we will have together as we get our new nest organized and comfy. What I had not really given much thought to was how much I would miss our little place there in the basement of my in-law's home. Where we poured so much love into the garden, the redecorating and renovating of the apartment. The love/hate I felt for our below ground level home by the end of the Winter when I craved sunshine desperately. Our miniscule kitchen from which we fed crowds

We have laughed so much in this house..it is a house full of love and laughter and good times with good friends and family. It's a pain-in-the-butt old house that always needed some thing fixed and every fix begat another step in the maintenance list! (Hubby won't miss that part for sure)

Strangely, I will truly miss you little house... my husband will be leaving his childhood home behind, you have been a wonderful home to all of us. I hope the new family will love you just as much as we loved you. It will be hard to close the door for the last time.

1/1/11

New year, new start, new adventures.

I have had a few different blogs over the years. My stamping blog has been my most consistent, I have done a 356 blog, a photography blog and started a travel blog for a trip to Turkey just last year. I have been kind of all over the place with no cohesion to bring all my interests together. So this year my goal is to bring all those interests together in one place under different tabs. Just one problem, I have no idea how to create tabs on a blog lol! So this is going to be a learning journey. I have to find out how to make this blog what I want it to be or find someone who does. I'd like to try my own hand at it, so bear with me and maybe we will all learn something!

This year is starting out with so much going on already and we are only 21 hours into it...

We are moving into our new home in two weeks after 22 years living here with my Father-in-Law. My eldest son and his wife are also moving into their first home in two weeks. My mum is in hospital in Ireland, my sister is in hospital in Ontario, my Father-in-Law is in full care with Alzheimer's here in Vancouver. So many changes, so much to worry about, so much to look forward to. Probably like most of your lives...good, bad, scary, happy stuff always mixing and mingling.

I hope to share my love of crafting, photography, cooking, decorating and travel. Won't you join me on my little adventure?

The first month may be a little sporadic as we move into our new home and my goal is that by Feburary 1st we will be settled in and ready to blog seriously!

So if you are new here let me tell you a little about myself.

I am Irish by birth, moving to Canada when I was 22 years old. I am a flight attendant with an international airline. I have been flying for 31 years and still think it is the best job in the world. I am also a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and love that job too. I have a wonderful husband of 22 years, two amazing step-sons married to two amazing young ladies. Our family is rounded out with our furbaby Cara..the daughter we never had! You may see her referred to as Boo (Cara > Caraboo> Boo)

For now I wish you all a really wonderful New Year and hope all your dreams and goals are fulfilled in 2011. It's going to be an amazing year!

 

Thanks for visiting, Sue