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January 3, 2009

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Moving is slow going - between weather and lingering coughs we haven’t moved as fast as I’d hoped. In fact, Marcus is over at the apartment now, hopefully picking up the last load of stuff, and the pod is still about 30% full. With luck, both the pod and the apartment will be empty by tonight, and I can clean out the apartment and turn in the keys early this week.

That said, downstairs is pretty close to finished, as far as decorating goes. As you can see I wasn’t kidding about my decorating style being global-bazaar-colour-explosion-market-circus — it seems our new place is as nuts as our old one. So many countries are represented, from England, America, Trinidad & Tobago, Ethiopia, Morocco, China, Iran, Egypt, Australia, Mexico, Guatemala - and that’s just the first photo (swipe to see more)! 😄 But it also reflects our family — our individual national origins, yes; but also our love of travel and the gifts of friends and cultures from around the world.

It’s bananas, but also a pretty accurate representation of who we are. We’ll take it. ✨❤️ #makelight #chookooloonksrebuild #ihaveathingforrugs

My sweet friend, @upsideup, made this awesome mailbox for us as a housewarming present, and words can’t describe how excited I was to install it today. (MAIL US instead of US MAIL, get it?) ✨✉️📬

Our pod was just delivered. After a week of moving the items we’d collected over the last year from out apartment to our new house, this sudden reminder that 15 months ago, this is all we salvaged from 15 years of marriage, 13 years as a family, 10 years in the house taken from us by the hurricane. It feels like suddenly crashing back to earth: a reminder from the universe that despite any rebuilding, it can all go away in minutes. A reminder to value what’s truly important - and what’s truly important isn’t the *things.* I haven’t done any Christmas shopping yet, but this will be on my mind when I do.

Time to tackle the pod. ✨

#makelight #chookooloonksrebuild

If loving my new front doormat is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. ✨

#makelight #chookooloonksrebuild

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