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Moving to Seattle



Today, a new chapter in our lives begin. Our house is officially for sale and we are moving back to Seattle. Our life on our little "mini farm" has come to an end after 17 years. It has been a process that we have been planning for a long time, over a year. We've been planning to downsize for awhile and to return to the place where we came from, where Bruce and I met, where we got married, where our children were born.  Thinking back over the years, we will never forget all we've learned about caring for chickens, gardening, raising fruit trees, canning the fruit from the fruit trees, raising dairy goats and a horse
getting rid of wasps nests, getting rid of gophers, repairing fencing, repairing sprinklers, keeping the neighborhood pump and irrigation system running (Bruce has been President of our Neighborhood Association for several years) and I - starting this blog. It has been a journey. Nick and Lauren have been long gone, both returning to Seattle, Nick now in Japan. It's been lonely here on this acreage without them because we initially bought this place with them, knowing it would be a good place to raise two teenagers and now we miss them. 


But we were lucky that this house was the place all their friends wanted to come over and to hang out, watching movies in the theater room, sleep-overs in the theater room, the place where the "before and after prom" took place


 their birthday parties including a band in the backyard


an "amazing race" theme party, multiple Halloween parties including a spook house, ping pong and foosball in the back room.


It's been a perfect house for reunions 


and "sisters' weekends"
Thanksgiving dinners
Christmas dinners


Christmas parties


super bowl parties




and salmon barbecues.

Much of this food and fun times I've blogged about over the years, you probably remember. With just Bruce and I living on this "mini farm", we decided the time is right now for us to make the change. We've always missed our friends in Seattle and now we miss Nick and Lauren. Seattle is just that much closer to Japan, a nonstop flight to see Nick, while Lauren will be just minutes away. In fact, she will be living with us for a bit while she finishes school.  I can't wait to be together again. Our house in Seattle awaits us, a house we recently just purchased, ready to move in.   With all our return trips to Seattle over the years (which I've also blogged about), we've always longed to return which was probably obvious in all my blog posts so now that is exactly what we're doing.  My blog will continue, but I suppose I will be giving it a new twist besides chickens in the background, maybe the "urban kitchen" or something like that.  I really don't know yet but my blog will continue. It will be a new chapter in our lives but it won't be new.  It will be home.  

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