We went to bed to wake up to the crater for my chandelier to be ringing the door bell...everyone on the Jonas house overslept which NEVER happens. We had to get moving right away. The crater was in and out in no time. About 20 minutes after he was done we all sat at the table as a family have breakfast...and then the doorbell rings and it is the packers...my day was about to be rocked...The packers walk in, give their small talk speech and then look around to see we are not 100% done packing. She says to me, "you are not done packing as I see boxes open." My response, "I know we are going to finish today while you guys are here." Ready - - she says, "the movers are on their way right now to load this house up...you guys need to be packed." I was for sure she must be mistaken. I try and call the moving company but it isn't even 9 am so no answer. We immediately call Dyann to please come over, have Miriam (nanny) load up the boys for a full days work of adventure and Gabe and I quickly get dressed. Within minutes the movers were at our house and the day of chaos began.
I really could not tell you much about the day because it was such a blur. I started the day off thinking it would be relaxing and that we should do a super fun family dinner our last night, to the entire house and memories being packed up with no time to reminisce. Come 5 pm, everything in our house was packed on a truck and our home was empty!
We went to pick up the boys from a friends house and came back so they could understand that all of their stuff was coming with us. While they ran around the house enjoying the echos of the load voices in our empty hardwood floor house...I really looked around and felt like I was in a movie...I remembered the day Gabe and I moved into our first home together, the fun we had unpacking and making it a home and our first fight in our new house on where to put the glasses. I remembered having Gabe's 30th birthday party there and celebrating with all of our family and friends. I remembered laying in my bedroom getting the call my grandmother had passed. I remembered a month later coming home from a night out with friends thinking I was pregnant and Gabe and I taking a pregnancy test in the middle of the night...We were pregnant!! I remember bringing Landon home from the hospital with Gabe...placing his carrier on the floor and looking at one another going...what are we supposed to do now? :) I remember where Landon was when he first smiled, laughed, crawled, talked and walked. I remember finding out just 11 months later that we were pregnant again and chasing Landon around the house to get a picture in his "I am going to be a big brother" t-shirt...I remember Landon's first birthday party covered in cake...I remember kissing my baby boy good-bye when I left to go to the hospital to give birth to Dylan...I remember bringing Dylan home placing his carrier on the floor and Gabe and I looking at one another going" We got this" :) I remember Dylan's first smiles..I remember Dylan taking his first steps in the den. I remembered his first birthday in our big back yard and how we always lucked out on the weather. I remembered the water fight we had in our kitchen...I remembered the tough love cries from my kids when I wouldn't give them their way...I remembered all their smiles when I walked in the door from work after a long day...
I know it sounds like so much but it all zipped through my brain in a matter in minutes...Gabe loaded the boys in the car...I took one last look around...I turned off the lights, shut the door behind me and walked away...I got in the car and Gabe and I looked at one another and all he said was, "home is where we all are as a family and all of the memories come with us". We didn't say a word on the way home, just held hands and prepared for our next adventure in this journey of life!
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| Our first house!!! |
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