We continue to feel discombobulated. Just over a year ago, our home looked like this. There were boxes everywhere, chaos reigned but we were full of excitement and enthusiasm for what was coming.
A perceptive friend wrote to me this week: "I hope you and David are settling in and and not having too much "culture shock" or "back to regular life" shock. It can feel very alienating coming back after a big adventure." She is almost correct. It is not so much alienating as quite different from what we expected. We thought we would come back to our 'old' life but of course, that life doesn't exist anymore. We will now have a 'new' life, constructed on some of the old but including all that we have learned this year, new interests and a desire to live differently. We are slowly beginning to see that this is exciting too: that building this 'new' life has many of the elements of starting life in La Rochelle. We are nesting again, remaking our home, trying to figure out how to use the space differently and more effectively. Instead of struggling home from the Salle de Ventes with our new table and chair, we are rebuilding Ikea bookcases. We are finding forgotten treasures in the boxes we are unpacking and wondering why on earth we
packed some of them at all. Value Village will be the recipient of more items in the near future! We are dealing with Ontario bureaucracy, in English this time but still a bureaucracy! The still pristine Rubbermaid containers have made their way from La Rochelle to Toronto. Thanks to Seven Seas shipping company, they were delivered to our door by a kind UPS man who staggered up the driveway and out to the deck with them. They too are full of treasures, small mementos of that wonderful time--ten months full of surprises.
Now our home looks like this--not much different but it feels different.
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| Note the balloons from the surprise party! |
packed some of them at all. Value Village will be the recipient of more items in the near future! We are dealing with Ontario bureaucracy, in English this time but still a bureaucracy! The still pristine Rubbermaid containers have made their way from La Rochelle to Toronto. Thanks to Seven Seas shipping company, they were delivered to our door by a kind UPS man who staggered up the driveway and out to the deck with them. They too are full of treasures, small mementos of that wonderful time--ten months full of surprises.
We are beginning to see that there will be surprises here too. We are making a list, so stay tuned!
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