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Lifting....Moving?

Well today I am tired.  I have been helping our daughter move boxes from her rental suite into her new home.  Her dh is still away on business, so we have been trying hard to help her. 

Last night after Karisa's graduation from Bible school we headed over to load up the van and take it to the new place.  Today her, I and the boys took two more loads.  I was so proud of the boys as they were trying hard to lift everything.  Truth be told we sure would not have finished as quickly as we did without them.  My boys are turning into little men.  (growing too fast).  Karisa was so proud of them and when her dh phoned he too was proud of them for all their work. (She took us to Tim's and Wendy's for lunch). Dh  feels so bad about not being home for their first year anniversary...his best friends wedding today and moving into their first home together.  Tomorrow his dad and brother will help move the largest things in the dad's trailer. 

I found out I have carpal tunnel in my right hand and it's spread so now I have Tennis elbow.  I should be wearing a special band and not using my right arm...but hopefully when this move is over I can rest.  I do know for sure I will not be helping them paint...I think that would kill my arm forever.

Oh yes...now for the questions Moving?  Yes, it's true we have decided that it's probably time to move.  This is going to sound really strange considering I am on a homestead blogging group.  Everyone here is either in the country...preparing to move to the country or saving desperately to live in the country....and we are now deciding to leave the country life.

I think I am tired of the work.  My right arm has been so bad lately....all the years of pruning as taken it's toll.  And now we have chickens and I cannot stand the mess.  Stephanie takes care of the chickens for 95% of the time and she always comes into the house stinking like chicken poo!!!!  I hate that smell.  Plus she is getting tired of me always making her change her clothes....  and it's at least three time a day because the smell just lingers on her clothes.  Everyone in the house is sick of the smell that follows Stephanie around.   There is so much work to do on this property and no time.  Dh is working so much now that he is a manager, that there is no time for farming.  And our boys are still too young to use the tractor.  Our daughter that use to do all the mowing has a life of her own and working so that leaves everything to me.  And it just doesn't seem worth it anymore.  I cannot keep on top of everything...and I need to be organized and I cannot stand dirt or mess.  I think this place is just not set up properly and that is driving me crazy.

For example...we spent so much time working on our garden to have it all drown...not the proper location.  Then the year before that when the garden did do good the neighbours horses got through and destroyed the entire garden and ate all our corn....again, lousy location.  And because this is a vineyard, there really is no other place for gardening. 

I guess I'm just feeling overwhelmed with it all and decided (we decided) that there might be more important things for us right now.  Spending time with our kids in different ways.  We have become a slave to this place and we said whenever that happened it was time to go.   Now our three oldest have graduated and there is no reason holding us here.  The younger three can go to any school and it won't be as big a deal until they hit high school...so that helps alot.

I will say this place has been wonderful.  Living just a few minutes down the road from Audrey has been the best few years of my life...I'm going to miss it.  We have learned how to prune grapes, make wine from beginning to end....now raising our own chickens for meat.  We definitely have fulfilled some of our dreams out here and for that we are ever grateful to God...plus my daughter says that if we would not have moved here, she would not be married now to the best guy.

I will miss the peace and quiet but hopefully we will find a place where there is no one behind us...maybe backing onto a park or field or something like that.  We aren't just going to settle for anything.  We are not forced to move quickly, so we will take our time for just the right place. 

So this evening we are heading out with our realtor to look at six houses.  We have already looked at a few but said no to all of them....so the search continues.

Well, my daughter wants to have tea before she heads off to the wedding without her hubby....she is not very excited to go without him....so I better have tea with her.