On the photos: Last two weeks in my house I have been cooking on this camping fire burner because the stove broke.
Skiing gear was shipped overseas, beautiful art gifts from my friends, preparing home schooling material for elementary and highschooler.
I have painted 10 commissions in the last two months, while packing.
Two and a half years ago we moved from our 3600sq feet home to a rental home that was half the size, in preparation for our journey. We down sized significantly but little did I know that moving out from the rental house was utterly exhausting because apparently we did not down sized enough. We have officially entered the post materialistic world. It was easier then I thought yet a lot of emotions involved. This is a big week for our family as we approached the time where both myself and Chris have left our jobs, released attachments of all kinds, and began our journey. At first we thought we will take a lot with us to sort later when it will be time to pack the boat, and as things started to pile up in the truck quickly, it got overwhelming just as fast. And I don’t say it lightly, For three days we were sorting and packing that truck, with emotion running like wild. I will talk about children later. We send our skiing gear overseas. Then, We drove the truck to boat yard and with our friend’s help we unloaded almost everything to a pod. The job was finished after midnight. By the end of the night I had blister on my feet, I could not move my leg, it was hot and the pod was half the size then we expected. By midnight we had no problem down sizing even more as we just wanted to shower and go sleep. It is amazing what you can do when lack of sleep is involved! After this ordeal we went to sleep, and in the morning we switched gears and started driving to Canada to visit my parents, we made it in 15 hours straight, and got there around midnight. What happened next was, sleep, for many hours.
This was a quick recap of last weeks events. I should mention that my friends have surprised me with best wishes and goodbyes. I have gotten breathtaking art pieces from my friends that I can fit on our boat. Those moments were bittersweet, but we have to keep focus on the present tasks and our goals. I had to keep reminding myself what those goals are. First time in ten years I am not employed. Nursing like many jobs will burn you out, you carry stress even subconsciously and I did not realize how stressed I was until I stopped working, And YES! moving was hard, changing our life is challenging,with happy emotions, but at the end of the day I stretched myself on the grass by the water, the stars were bright, with blisters on my feet, exhausted and I thought to myself, it was all worth it. And it is just the beginning.
The fact that we are left with nothing but opportunities, and free of baggage fascinates me. We are truly painting our lives now. This is called living in the present. I have been practicing that notion a lot, because when I paint I am completely in the present moment where time truly stops. I have been painting a lot in the past two months as well, definitely under some pressure, and time constrain, still with pleasure and escape. Now, We take time to admire clouds and stars, and not just once in a while but everyday, and we notice life. Day to day rat race did not allow us to do so. This change was not something that we came up with recently, it was maturing in us as a couple and as individuals for many years, and preparations took just as long. When time came to leave our jobs, it seemed surreal, our plans started to come together as if though there was no other way anymore. Truly there is no going back, for many,many reasons or I should say, frustrations. Challenges come with it as well. In retrospect I think that it was inevitable that we would move closer to ocean at some point, with Chris’s ongoing yacht projects and my art and gallery projects on the coast as well. Our life on the coast has bloomed with friends and community in big part it has to do with our passionate interests and love for the ocean.
Our children have been hearing about our preparations for years, when we sold our house, they were troopers and they adjusted to the new house very quickly. We moved to an old character home in wonderful community among huge trees with a big swing on a branch. Two years past and it was time for them to give up their beds, toys and pretty much everything else. While some things went to my mom for storage. They were helping in moving picking, lifting, transporting, going to sleep very late on many occasions and spending countless hours in car rides to coast and back. Over all they were extremely patient, versatile and ready. Most of all they are very happy children and look forward to experiencing the world, non the less they will have to do some serious adjustments to their habits, and it will be hard too. I asked them of one thing, to trust their parents!!!
I read blogs of people who travel and what I can’t take is people who only write how wonderful and perfect their journeys are, and it seems so boring and almost unrealistic. In my blog you will find the good, the bed, and everything in between. Here
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