Sometimes
I wonder when we will finally have a quiet weekend when we can simply enjoy the
time at home or we can drive somewhere without having a particular schedule in
mind. I guess we have to have the weekends like this one in order to finally
achieve that kind of relaxation. Today was another one of those days when the
miles seem a little longer and the properties don’t look quite as good as the
pictures. My wife and I agree that this might be the worst part of moving…
trying to find that right place. This is about as far from a relaxing weekend
as we could get at this point.
It
is both a stressful and an exciting time for us as we look for a place where we
can finally let our roots grow rather than restrained in a rental pot. We have
seen a long list of places, some better than others, all with something that we
really like and all with faults of varying degrees. While in the past we have
settled for a place to live, some better than others but all that met our needs
at the time, now we are in a completely different situation, now we are looking
for a home not just a place to live.
Obviously,
just the noise in our own minds processing all we are seeing with each property
is contrary to the concept of a quiet weekend. Actually, the uncertainty of finding
a permanent place has increasingly impeded this simple request to have peace
between the work weeks. But I am looking forward to settling down and enjoying the
fact that we have a place where we can watch our son grow up… we will have a
home not just a roof and walls… something that we have been searching for over
the past several years.
Now
is obviously not the time for the quiet weekends. Now is the time to do what we
can to ensure that we have those quiet weekends in the future. Those free
spaces in life when we can enjoy time together without the stresses and
distractions of the work week. Now is the time to ensure that those moments
highlight our lives tied together with the consistency of place. No, we don’t
have the time for quiet weekends right now but weekends like this ensure that
we soon will.
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