| | | | Searching Frantically for Emergency Sanity |
By Glenn A. Hascall
So there I was traveling across the wide open spaces in a fairly new UHaul. My daughter dripped in the seat next to me as we endured 100 degree temperatures in a vehicle with no air conditioning.
Moving can be so hard. All of our possessions rested in the back of that 26 foot long bad boy and our van was on a car carrier behind. My son begged for mercy and was moved to the air conditioned car behind us with my wife.
This was the eve of our twentieth anniversary and we wondered silently about our own personal sanity in pulling up roots and traveling roads (mostly filled with construction crews) that we'd never traveled before.
Wind gusts caused the UHaul to perform a wonderful dance that scared the bajeebers out of my wife and had me fighting the steering wheel for hours on end.
The children enjoyed the swimming pool at the motel that first night as my wife and I looked frantically for the emergency sanity we were supposed to have packed.
When we arrived in our new town we went to the local title company and signed closing papers on a new home. I tried to tell my wife it was her anniversary gift, but she was convinced this was not true because she had to share it with the rest of us.
It's true, moving is not easy. You pack up everything you have and leave a place that you know for someplace you've only dreamt about. The trip getting there becomes a bit of a blur and the moments following arrival become similarly hazy.
The new region is explored and new sites are uncovered. In our case the people are friendly and the house is wonderful. This has all the makings of something wonderful, we just can't seem to find the box filled with all the things that make a house a home. We'd always been told you have to live out of boxes for awhile - now we understand. It may take awhile to find everything we need to make a house a home, but we'll find them - eventually.
In the meantime there are new friends that, by their very willingness to help, are finding those pieces and helping us to discover that home may not be so very far away after all.
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