We are all here–finally–in our new home state. We all finally have our beds to lay our heads down on at night. We have at least one TV hooked up in the house, and all the movers are gone! Hallelujah!
And now begins the hard work. The hard work of sorting through countless boxes to try to piece back together what used to be a fairly well ordered home and life. And so it is in our personal lives too. These couple of months have been so full of uncertainty and upheaval that our interpersonal connection is nearly as scattered, jumbled and boxed up as our belongings. With my beloved going ahead of us weeks in advance to start her job, and I handling all the mayhem and details of moving… we have both been in survival mode… just counting the days until we were together again. And now we are. And now we need to and want to reconnect. This is as delicate a dance as two can 
commence. This is a mystery to me. When all two people want is to be together… and yet all their energies have been given to coping, working, surviving–how does one ease the transition? That is another mystery. But I know that over the last decade we have always successfully found a way to traverse that all important bridge back to connection and harmony with one another. And so… much like knowing that in due time all these cumbersome boxes will be gone 
and all our belongings will be in their proper places, it will be so with all the compartmentalized pieces of our familiarity and intimacy. They too will survive the mayhem and find their places back to where they belong.
This I believe.
This I will patiently wait for and work toward.
Oh, but could it all just be magically re-organized, re-ordered and renewed when I get back from taking the kids to the movies today?
It takes a long time to feel settled, in my own limited experience. And I didn’t have children to move back then. Don’t leave those boxes! Make yourself open at least three boxes a week until they’re all gone. And if you wonder why on earth you packed “this,” give it away!
And have some chocolate.
It is so neat to hear of a relationship solid and strong enough to make it through these times. Many people go their whole lives never having that security….
We’ve lived in this house for 12 years…
I still haven’t gotten ’settled’ so to speak…
It still doesn’t feel like home…There are still
boxes up in the shed that haven’t been
unpacked or even thought of in all these
years…
Can’t wait to see pictures
LOVE AND HUGS!!!!!!
Laurie
Birdie… thank you much for this insight and wisdom. I think I will heed all of that!
CCT… Indeed! I am very blessed to have love, security and life with my family!! Great reminder!
Laurie, hey girl! I know there will always be things unpacked and unsettled, but I hope to become fairly settled. luvs and {HUGS}
Best wishes to each of you, and all of you….singly and corporately….as you settle. Peacefully and happilly.
Here’s to the “bridge” that rises high above any troubled waters and keeps you “connected” and “in harmony.”
Many thanks Arnie & Steven! I whole heartedly echo those sentiments!! May it be so! {HUGS}!!! to you both.