Ready to Move On

Second to last night in our house...seems kind of strange.  It's been a wonderful house - perfect for us for the past 4 years in its structure and location.  But, like most things in life, there comes a time when you must move on...you outgrow things.  We hope this house will create many wonderful memories for the next family that owns it as it has for us.  We've been here for 4+ years and have a lot of our own memories here - mostly good and a few bad.  We moved in the day after my 31st birthday in 2009; great memory.  We brought a 6-week old Baxter-the-dog home from the shelter that July.  We rushed out of the house after Susan's water broke and to the hospital with great excitement, anticipation and nerves on September 30, 2010.  We brought 4-day old Noah home to the house on October 4, 2010 (he was born on the 1st).  We had Canadian Thanksgivings, Christmas's, Easters and a number of other gatherings with friends and family.  We've had wonderful times here.  We've also had not so wonderful times.  We received Noah's diagnosis on April 1, 2011....what a cruel April Fool's that was.  Unfortunately it wasn't a joke and we shed many tears that day and numerous, ensuing others.  We guided Baxter out of the house for the last time that same May as we brought him to his new home.  We've had bad times here.

I did the final walk-through at the new house this evening - we close tomorrow.  Unfortunately, Susan got stuck at work and wasn't able to attend.  We're very excited for our new home - it will be a wonderful house for us all.  Noah will have lots of room to run around and play in the yard....he'll have a wonderful school system and great services through the town as he transitions from the Early Intervention program to the town program for services when he turns 3 later this year.  We continue to consider ourselves fortunate in that we are able to provide these things for him - and we're now ready to move on.  We realize that there are many in our same situation that are not.  I'll be setting up our Pediatric Stroke Awareness month giving page tomorrow through the CHASA site - please consider a gift to help those families to move on, too.