Nostalgic

We will be moving the day after tomorrow....wow. We still have another week before we close, but we wanted to leave plenty of time to pack up the last minute stuff and get the house clean. So, Saturday we'll be moving over to the new house. I am so excited about the prospect of a new house and being able to remodel it the way we want! And yet, I'm feeling a little nostalgic about this house at the same time.
This was our first home together, the place where we brought our children home to as babies. It's also my childhood best friend's home, so it holds even more memories for me. I'll miss being able to look around and remember where things happened... "This is the room where Carissa and I would stay up all night talking and eating Oreos." "This is where Garrett first learned to crawl." "This is where Dave and I first learned we'd be parents."
Then again, there are those not-so-nice memories too..."This is where Garrett poured an entire bottle of blue liquid laundry detergent on the carpet." "This is where Paige fell down the stairs." "This is where the roof leaked into the kitchen ceiling."
I know our new house will be a place of many memories as well and in time I won't really miss this house. But for now, it feels strange. My resting place, the place where I find comfort, is being uprooted. The new house just feels like we're vacationing somewhere. I wonder how long it will be before I can pull into the driveway at the new house and say "We're home" and really mean it?
I suppose to those of you who have moved several times in your life, this all seems silly. But I lived in the same house my entire childhood, and my parents still live in that house. Since then, I have lived in an apartment for a few years, then this house for the last 8 years. I am unfamiliar with this kind of change, and it feels strange and yet exciting too. It is definitely a new chapter in our lives! I suppose I will just have to take some pictures of this house so I can point back and remind myself of the memories we had here.
For now, however, it's time to go pack some more boxes....