The Dumonts are moving!

By now, you probably know that we're moving in a few weeks. What you don't know is the crazy confluence of events that lead up to our upcoming moves. Yes, I said moves because we will be moving twice in the next 5 months. Every time I start telling people about our plan, we either get laughed at or the "are you crazy" look.  So let's just put an end to that question right now. Yes, we are edging ever closer to the top of the crazy scale.

I won't go into all the things that came together to lead to this move, but it involves a three different things coming together from completely different directions at the same time. It was a perfect storm in a way!  We never felt as if we'd be in Charleston long term. In fact, I always pictured us leaving after three years, and we just hit the 3 year mark. Funny how things work out that way.

Basically, Mr. Inc will be starting a new job in October. It's a job that he loves! He gets to travel which is favorite thing in the world besides me. Anyone that knows us at all knows that we've been extra busy this summer. That would be because Mr. Inc has been working essentially 4 jobs. He's had his full-time job, the AF Reserves, continuing as a CARES Team in our community, and finally traveling once a month to feel out the possibility of this new job. We knew this summer would be hard, but we think the result will be worth it. If you're wondering why we're moving twice, here's the deal. Mr. Inc's new job will have a certain level of flexibility. For the next 3 1/2 months, we'll be able to live in my family's house in small town South Carolina. This is a whole 'nuther blog post on its way. =)   Simply speaking, we're giving ourselves a break. We will be in the country. We will be near lots of family and old friends. We can take a breather for a few months, and enjoy the holidays without traveling all over the place. We can take the time to decide what we want our life in Raleigh to look like. We are so thankful to have the freedom to be able to do this! If we didn't homeschool, have so much flexibility, and have an empty family house to move into, we'd be going straight to Raleigh.

As I write this, I realize I'm just hitting the tip of the iceberg of the WHY behind the crazy looks we get.  I'll bullet point it because otherwise you'd be reading a novel, not a blogpost. This is our calendar between August 29 and September 28.

  • Go on roadtrip to Maine including a BUSY day in New York City (that's also a whole 'nuther post)-  DONE!
  • Community event-  DONE!
  • Drive 3 hours to the upstate to teach a 9th grade literature class for a homeschool co-op AND visit my grandfather who is doing very badly- DOING RIGHT NOW!
  • Various work things that have to be done next week
  • Mumford and Sons concert 3 hours away
  • Go to a birthday party
  • Another community event! (Yay! These are fun!)
  • Drive back to the  upstate to teach literature and return the same day because....
  • We have our very last community event in the morning! This is actually really sad for me. I'm going to miss our friends and neighbors, and we love getting to serve our community.
  •  Pack up and clean up the apartment in a week's time.
  • Move.
  • (I keep remember things to add...meetings, appointments, etc. Trust me, the next three weeks are slammed full of craziness)

We'll move on a Saturday. Jon leaves on his first trip with his new job on Monday. He'll come home at the end of the week to a moved in house. Or a stack of boxes. Whatever. 

So there you go. If I look a little...I don't know...exhausted occasionally, now you know why! It will be great! Truly! We're having the best time this month and loving every minute of the craziness.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Beauty, awe, and trust

Image
The past few days my mind has insisted on drifting back to Paris at every opportunity. Generally during the day there are too many sounds and responsibilities to merely sit and think. At night, however, my mind has been coming alive with memories. This time, my heart keeps going back to the Eiffel Tower. My first day in Paris was ridiculously perfect, but that evening was one of those surreal experiences that still feels halfway imagined. Actually, it's not even the Eiffel Tower that I keep picturing, it's walking in Paris afterwards. It was midnight, and we walked through a light rain. The city was quieter than I expected a major city to be. Hardly anyone was walking, there were few cars on the roads. We walked by this one restaurant with a red awning that was full of boisterous cyclists celebrating the end of the Tour de France. The rain made the city lights sparkle. The lights weren't harsh and florescent. Instead, they all had a soft, warm, incandescent glow that made t...
Read more

I think people wouldn't like me as much if I had a better filter.

Hello, friends. So. We all have that thing or two that is our signature trait; the thing that people identify us with. I have two, but only one is applicable for today because someone said it to me this morning, and then I exhibited it this evening. People tell me that I tell the truth. Bluntly. Or that I say the things that they wish they could say. Some people admire it, but really, I just lack a filter. I see it as more of a fault, but there ya go. The thing is, I don't share nearly enough for me to feel all "transparent" or whatever the new buzzword is for today. I generally feel like I hide most of the things we're all supposed to hide. And then I'll say something like I said tonight, and I think to myself "Oh. Yeah. That's why people say I'm blunt." This evening as I was talking to another mom, she asked me about homeschooling. She admitted she didn't know very much about it and it seemed overwhelming. Then she asked about testing and...
Read more

Goodbye to you.

Hello, friends. Despite my lack of posting, I've been doing a decent amount of writing, and it's good. I mean, I know I shouldn't say that, but a few things are really  good. You know how I know? I know because I can't bring myself to let anyone else actually read it. So there ya go. But really, here's the thing.  Everything that I want to say doesn't seem to fit in this space anymore. I started this blog mostly as a way to keep friends and family up to date as we moved or they moved...everybody was always moving. Then it morphed into a place to say some of the things. Not all  the things because I like to keep friends and acquaintances in my life. Even so, it was a place to drop some of my thoughts that needed to be dropped for the people that want to keep up with our world.  Now I've settled down enough that I can be slightly more focused. And so...I think this is the end of this blog. It's a little sad, but it's long overdue. This dinky littl...
Read more