First the good news - I got a really great job offer. Bad news - it’s in a city 3.5 hours away. So that means, the Marriage Diva and husband are packing up and heading north to the great city of Cleveland. If it’s good enough for Drew Carey it’s good enough for us.

Right now it’s a mix of some excitement and exhaustion. Last weekend was spent moving stuff to storage, painting, packing and cleaning. The house is on the market and the pictures just went up online yesterday. Even had a walk through today! Just waiting for an offer now. Any second now the phone will ring…it’s a sellers market right? Kidding. I just hope having the smallest house in the neighborhood and the price tag to prove it will work to our advantage.

What does this have to do with marriage? Everything. We’re moving from out first house. The excitement of the bidding, securing a mortgage, painting, redecorating - this was the first time we did that together. We feel like we did a lot of growing up in this house. Growing up as people and growing into our marriage. I didn’t love the house when we bought it. Who can love a 4 year old ranch? But when I took our wedding pictures down, when I carefully packed away 5 years worth memories in cardboard boxes I fell in love with my house. I stood in my living room today, sort of a extra clean and tidy shell of what it was a week ago and cried. We bought this house because it was sensible for us at the time. We bought it together. And together we leave. I’ll always have the memories of our 5 years here and I look forward to what lies ahead but nothing can quite compare to your first home.

And now I sit at my desk in the office we painted together on a desk we bought together writing (and crying) about a house I never thought I’d love as much as I do at this moment.

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