I'm Moving For The First Time In My Life

One of my topics for "Never Have I Ever" is about to go away. Next year I will be moving for the first time in my entire life!!!! My parents moved into this house right before I was born and stayed put! I realize that is pretty rare these days. There are a LOT of thoughts that go through my head when it comes to moving for the first time. I'm actually starting to find some things that I'm even a little excited about!

I've never been someone who liked change. Challenges and adventures are not my style. Seeing how much I've grown in this area as I've gotten older has been truly encouraging to me, but changes are still not my favorite thing.

When my parents bought this property seven (almost eight) years ago, my goal was to never live there. The purpose of this property is to have a homestead/hobby farm and that is my dad's dream, not mine. I was not excited but I thought I had a lot of time to figure something else out. Maybe I'd even be married by the time it came to move! Well, here we are, moving a little earlier than originally planned, and I am not married, nor anywhere close to it, so living at the farm it is!

Here's the thing. I hate saying this because it's so overused by now, but 2020 changed everything. It moved up our moving date and it completely obliterated the direction I was headed in life. I'm sure many can agree that last year was the year the rug got pulled out from under them. Suddenly, the farm looks like stability and a place to gather the strands while I try to figure out what life is going to look like going forward.

When I think about moving, I'm actually a little excited for the change because I feel stagnant in my current location. We're not moving all that far, only about a half hour, but it's a new place, a new area, with new opportunities. I feel like I've exhausted the opportunities for growth and community in my current area.

You all know I love lists :) So here is a list of things I am excited about for moving.

• A new location
  
• New opportunities
• The chance to declutter. (We've lived in this house over 20 years! It needs going thru!)
• All the organizational and design opportunities.
• A fresh start for new habits

There are definitely things I'm going to miss about this house (storage capacity is one of them) and there are challenges to the new place (it's significantly smaller than our current house with significantly less storage space) but I think I'm going to be okay. When I think about leaving, I don't think it will be that hard. But I have a suspicious feeling that it's going to be harder than I think :)

As much as I don't like change, I think part of me is ready for some kind of change and moving to a new house happens to be what is in front of me. Many people my age are just graduated from college, starting jobs, getting married, or having a baby. Because I didn't go to college, life has not had many sharp changes that mark a turning point in my life and I think it's been hard for me to grow in certain areas. I view this move as kind of my break with my past and starting a new chapter in my life. It's more stark than other periods of life have been. Most of my transitions have been rather slow and blended the seasons together. There will be no blending here!

Don't worry, I'm not moving far away, so I will still be serving this area and working with my clients from the Northville, Farmington, Livonia area!!! I won't be leaving you guys!