Never Say Never

I have heard my own words echo in my ears quite a few times now...."I am never moving again." After years and years of military life and all that packing, unpacking, and moving, once we moved into this house, all I wanted to do was put down roots, do some work on this one, and sit back and enjoy it.

Work-we have; not much sitting, but and except for the low moments it has been an adventure-enjoyable? Mostly. We are unpacking boxes right now to start putting the living room back together. There are boxes everywhere, much of which has to be repacked because the first packing job was kind of haphazard (that happens when you have to pack in a hurry). I haven't "moved" in the sense of the word, but the entire house has been packed, unpacked, and repacked quite a few times this past year. We go looking for something we haven't seen in a year and have to sort boxes to find it. In the process we discover stuff we forgot we owned and have no idea what we are doing with.

The book boxes are the ones I am sorting through right now. Those boxes contain a hodgepodge of old textbooks, math and literature books, accounting books, reference material, college notes, kid books, Christian fiction and nonfiction, and....photo albums and scrapbooks. Of course, I had to sit and browse. I looked back through all those pictures of our family-the shared moments-the growing together-remembering those years and years and years we spent traveling to see family, stopping off at places like the USS Kidd, Saint Augustine, and the Kennedy Space Center.

I grew up going absolutely nowhere doing absolutely nothing with my family. I can't recall one thing we really did together. We lived in the same house, but lived independently. My parents dropped me off or I caught a ride. Until Steve, until we were married, life was pretty nonadventuresome....but now....every day is an adventure...life is full....we do everything together....including pack and unpack a house we are seriously never planning to move out of...but I am not saying NEVER!