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The Red Couch....

     Moving became real this weekend, not when all my boxes were loaded on the truck, not when my house was covered in tape and dust, and the shop was a mess....nope, it was real when we moved out the "red couch".    You see, the "red couch"....it has been with me everywhere since I moved out of my childhood home in April of 2005.  That couch moved into my first apartment with my two best girlfriends, Shauna and Brooke, who both have the most beautiful 1 year olds now...how did that happen?  Opps, I digress.  So back to the couch, it was my first official "big girl" purchase and it has moved from Bentwood to Lubbock to Mertzon, and now to a sea container in Talpa, Texas!  

     I thought I was the only one so attached to my red couch, until this weekend.  Duke has been very confused during this packing and moving process but quietly sat back and let it happen until the RED COUCH was moved outside to the trailer!  He LOST HIS MIND!  He knew that if the red couch was moving, his family was going somewhere and he wanted to make sure he went with it.  

     So maybe my connection with this couch wasn't just my hundreds of nights studying or procrastinating with Sara and Jake, lonely, happy, sad nights, wine & goldfish nights with Sara, talking about the night before with friends, waiting for Brooke and Shauna to get home while camped out on the couch, sweet kisses from my husband, cuddling with my niece, waking my best friend, Lance, up night after night on the couch, crying with friends and remembering Lance's life while all piled on the couch, my brother's countless nights staying over, watching endless hours of Hallmark and Sports Center, and many sleepless nights solving the world's problems in Lubbock.  Maybe this couch means home to me and my little family, I'm sure it means something to all of those that have spent some time on the couch.  Coffee on Saturdays, College game day, and wine after a long day just won't be the same without that "red couch".  Lucky for me, it is at the front of the sea container and I am just a master lock and 50 miles away from flipping that bad boy over to sit awhile!

     Days like today make me realize how comforting sitting on the couch is.....I learned today that we are no longer closing on our house at the end of the month and that we start all over with selling the house.  I know that God has a better plan in place for the buyer of this home.  We only have more than 50 % of our home moved into sea containers and spent all last weekend moving...still not so bad.  Our bed and winter clothes are still here, in plastic tubs but still here.  Some limited kitchen utensils and paper plates are here, I guess take out and left overs a few more weeks can be handled.....but when I realized I have to keep my house "show ready" again I almost lost it.  I mean I LOVE a clean home but who really has time to make their bed and wash down their sinks every morning???  

     Oh well, onward to finding a new buyer and new family to be blessed with this home!  Trusting God and pressing on.....and using Matt's chair as my "red couch"...it will do for now!








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