Amanda's Musings

With 30 days to go until we leave things are started to move quickly. I have finished as much packing as I can do, the removalist comes in 17 days but we have a garage sale two weeks from now. Being mostly packed at this point means I can focus on other things such as helping my Dad with any painting or fixing during the next week and also preparing for the garage sale properly.

Yesterday I shed a little tear as Little L and I watched the council truck collect our junk. As I mentioned in a previous post our pram was in that pile along with our duck and chook enclosures. Here they are being loaded on the truck (they were crushed second later):

Its nice to have the huge pile gone but at the same time there was a lot of history there.

In my post about two and a half weeks ago I mentioned some of the Things I Wonder. These included:

- Will I find a home for our ducks?
- Will someone buy our VW Beetle?
- Will we rent or sell?
- Will my health settle down or will this stress cause me more damage?
- Will we be able to afford to fix the things we need to on our house before we go?
- Will I handle saying goodbye to so many friends at once?

I also stated that I fully trust that God knows the answers to these questions. We’ve had some answers to these already. For example, in that short time ALL of our ducks have gone to new homes. About two weeks ago our VW Beetle SOLD and today the new owner came and picked it up:

In many ways its very sad to say goodbye to our ‘Latte’. She was a great little car but its time to move on (and buy a new VW one day!!).

As for the other questions, we still don’t know what will happen with our house and I haven’t started the proper goodbyes (these start next Saturday). My Dad is coming this week to help with our house so that answers part of the cost of fixing it question, his coming reduces that cost A LOT (thank you Dad). My health has been up and down but I suppose thats not surprising and so far I’m coping ok (apart from feeling exhausted).

So whats on the list for this week? Mainly house fixing stuff while Dad is here as well as back yard cleanup and a visit from a friend. The exciting thing for this week is a fantastic Opshopathon with my friends next weekend (can’t wait!). It is however bittersweet because I know it will the last time I see some of my friends for a long time. Time is going quickly!