Chores

If we were on a two week vacation, we would have headed for home today.  

Yes, it's starting to sink in that we're not on holiday, this is our home and we're adopting a new lifestyle. And, yes, it's way different.

There's one thing that most reminds us that we really are fulltiming: Our household chores.

Nothing like a little work to help you realize you're not on vacation! 

As we were headed toward Port Orford, we created a list of chores we wanted to get done while we were here. Sitting in one place for a week gives you the luxury of time to be able to take care of a few things. It's harder to do when you're in one spot for just a night or two. 

Our list included things like laundry, groceries, purging (can you believe that?), reorganizing, getting mail, making reservations for down the road and washing the moose. We spent time this morning doing the latter while our friends patiently waited for us before heading out for a bit of geocaching. We've washed the moose before, but we forgot what a big job it is. Many hours later Bullwinkle was squeaky clean, much more time had passed than we thought, and we were very late for our geocaching date. 

With all these chores behind us, we're tired. But, it's a good kind of tired. Not that crazy exhausted tired we felt before the move. No, this feels pretty good.

Thanks to these chores, it feels like we actually live here.