Another week in Utah… well, actually, mostly Wyoming followed by a mad dash of nearly three weeks of packing, moving, unpacking, more packing, moving, and more unpacking, plus painting and a few house repairs. I am worn out. We are taking a hiatus with Andy’s family in Myrtle Beach, then caravaning at the end of this next week to Texas so I had to put moving on hold for now. Part of me is unnerved by this, because I don’t like stopping a project mid-way, but the other part of me–the part that napped for two hours today, is grateful for the reprieve. During the move, I was barely sleeping. We’d work till we were too exhausted to do any more, pretty much go straight to bed, wake up with the sun (mostly because my brain would wake me up with the lists of all the things we had to do) and repeat.
We returned from Utah June 15. We had a great time with Nick and his family at Flaming Gorge. We went boating, hiking, and even saw some petroglyphs. In between those adventures, we had a lot of down time at the cabin and enjoyed playing games together.
The petroglyphs were so cool. There was an image of a priest and shortly after that image was an image of one man putting his hands on another man.
Then it showed a beast with small horns, a line, and then on the other side of the line was a beast with larger horns. In the same area there was an image of a tree. I may be piecing together from the knowledge base I have, but it seemed to me like it was the same story as the tree of life. It makes a lot of sense to me. We all came from the same God, the same beginning, so seeing variations of the story of the tree of life written in petroglyphs on this rock thousands of years ago was testimony reaffirming. Though they may have not had the entire gospel, it seems as though they had a part of it.
Unfortunately, there were a lot of modern petroglyphs intertwined with the ancient ones. Some from 1918, others from the 50’s, 70’s and probably some closer to our day. We talked about how sad it was that someone had done that, but how it was fine for someone to have done it thousands of years ago. I think it would be fine if someone were to write on their own property to create a history for future generations to find, but not close to preexisting petroglyphs.
Back in Georgia, we got stuff ready for the move, then closed on the house that Thursday. We took the kids over to the new house right after we closed. We grabbed takeout and let them swim. When it was close to bedtime, we headed back to our old house. Bright and early Friday morning, we loaded up the van and the Tesla and headed over. Unpacked the first load and went for a second load. Add in house repairs, errands, and painting and that has been our life for the past two weeks. I’ve woken up sore and exhausted, but ready to go early every morning. My brain would wake me up around 4 and would not quiet down till I’d give up and get going. About half the days, I’d walk with my friends at 6:30, but I had to take some days off because a three-mile walk combined with moving, unloading, and packing would get me well over 15000 steps a day. I can only do so many days of that before I’m conked out.
I love our new house. I will be sad about not living next door to my friends, but I did feel good about this choice, so I am leaning on that experience when I start to feel sad about the change. The things I love about the new house are having spaces for my kids to play without being under my feet. The dog door has been a huge win for Daisy. The kids spend hours every day swimming and thank heavens they’re good swimmers, because it allows me to get stuff done, plus I have a good view of them from my window. We finally had time to sit in the evening and enjoy a movie, once we got our mattresses and didn’t have to drive back to the other house at the end of the day. We watched Project Hail Mary and really enjoyed it. I’m also excited to have more space to host, and hopefully have family guests ;).
Well, once again, I don’t have access to my photos, so I may have to come back and edit this blog later, for now I’m going to enjoy my vacation from all the chaos!