June Will Be a Month of Changes and Challenges for Boston Manor

Well, it's here, June.  Sort of a deadline that's been floating in my head.

June is the month we've been shooting for to finish all our decluttering, attic cleaning, repairs, fluffing things up around here.

June is the month we are going to list our house for sale.

Whoa! I actually said it and now will put it out there on the blog.

This is a huge step for us.  We've lived in this house for 23 years.  This is the only house The Maven has ever lived in.  A lot has happened in this house.

My parents were still alive when we moved here and died while we lived here.

We've lived 7 minutes from my mother-in-law for those 23 years.  She was always close by if we needed her.
And vice-versa. Orlando Grandma knows she always has a place with us.

My kids learned to ride their bikes on the sidewalk in front, play basketball in the driveway, draw chalk drawings all over and run through the sprinklers in the summer months.

My children were able to grow up with the same group of friends, go to boy scouts and girl scouts.  Have countless sleepovers.

We've even had some movies filmed here during The Writer's college years.

My son and his wife asked that we host their wedding reception here. Here in this small little, ordinary house. I was astounded, but then honored to share that special time here at our house.

We have very good neighbors.  The best. That's going to be hard - to find good neighbors again.

We have such good friends here, many we met through our children as many of us do.  

Some from just seeing each other in the same place over the years and eventually taking the step of actually socializing.

Mr. Tennis has his tennis league buddies.  They have been playing together, well, forever, it seems.

Our family lives here. That's really hard. But not all of them live here. 

And when your children find happiness and success on the other side of the country and you only get to see them in snippets, that's even harder.

The Fantastic Four have always been a tight unit.  That's what we would call ourselves during our many camping vacations. We always knew we all had each other's back.  We have added a Fabulous fifth to that tight little unit, our DIL, Sammy.

The Maven is excited about spreading her wings and heading to the SoCal area to start her post-college life and career. 

 She has a safe place to land with her brother and sister-in-law for a few months.

Mr. Tennis and I will also spread our, quite a bit older, wings and head in the same direction sometime within the next few months.  And yes, of course, The Bostons and Bumby will be joining what should be a very interesting drive across the country.

This is a scary, exciting, sad, wonderful time in our lives.  We always knew that we would move from Florida after our last bird flew the nest, but weren't sure where we would head.

As we have told our kids, especially the newlyweds when they announced they would be heading that way that this is the time of their lives to take chances, to chase their dreams and to make those dreams a reality.

At our stage in life, many people would stay put. It's less stressful and more comfortable, but we are going to take our own advice and spread our wings a bit.

Thanks for reading this long post.  I didn't know how to really express all of these feelings I have so I just let it flow, however disjointedly it may have flowed.

So, Boston Manor is relocating. 

To California.

Exactly where in California remains to be seen, but you know me.

I'll be blogging about it all.