The past 3 weeks have been hectic. I have been online almost all day long combing the Internet and scouring through countless craiglist pages to find a place to live in Seattle. Its been 2 months that we have been living in corporate housing and our time here is almost up. This past weekend had been our deadline to find a new place to stay so that we could give a forwarding address to the movers to move our furniture from Dallas. Eventually, we decided on a cozy little townhouse on the north side of Redmond.
We have lived in our own house for the last few years and hence the kids were never restrained from conjuring up modern art on the walls or spilling multi-colored liquids on our pristine carpets, even though I must admit that the first stain hurt real bad!! :)
This new house is going to be a huge change in lifestyle. Scaling down from a 3300 sqft home to a 1300 sqft townhouse is going to be challenging enough, but repressing those natural desires will be a gargantuan job. I donot particularly fancy all that lies ahead with respect to all the disciplining that is about to ensue.
Nevertheless, it's high time for this change in lifestyle. I have firmly believed it for sometime now that a tightening of our finances and way of living is in order. When we decided to go to a single income situation after Rayaan was born, I had prepared myself for this day. I feel that once we get used to living a more frugal life a lot of our long term goals will fall in place. It's strange but I have always had these romantic visions of living a poor life, albeit this is really very far from being poor.
Right as I write this post, our home in Dallas is being packed up and loaded in a van line. When we built our home a few years ago, I never envisioned leaving it behind and packing off to a far away place. We chose all our home accents and every piece of furniture in the house painstakingly. We decorated our home with great love and passion. Salman has always been passionate about having a beautiful home and that in turn help me discover my hidden flair for decorating. It breaks my heart to think that this nest we so lovingly built is being torn down into pieces I may never be able to collect again. I wanted to go and see the home one last time before the final move, but that didn't happen and all for a reason perhaps. I would have been bawling out in the front yard once again!
However, the important thing to remember is that we are all here and can make a cozy home wherever we live together. So looking beyond all the materialistic aspects and appreciating the spirit of love and affection we share as a family, I march on to make this new place a home sweet home
We have lived in our own house for the last few years and hence the kids were never restrained from conjuring up modern art on the walls or spilling multi-colored liquids on our pristine carpets, even though I must admit that the first stain hurt real bad!! :)
This new house is going to be a huge change in lifestyle. Scaling down from a 3300 sqft home to a 1300 sqft townhouse is going to be challenging enough, but repressing those natural desires will be a gargantuan job. I donot particularly fancy all that lies ahead with respect to all the disciplining that is about to ensue.
Nevertheless, it's high time for this change in lifestyle. I have firmly believed it for sometime now that a tightening of our finances and way of living is in order. When we decided to go to a single income situation after Rayaan was born, I had prepared myself for this day. I feel that once we get used to living a more frugal life a lot of our long term goals will fall in place. It's strange but I have always had these romantic visions of living a poor life, albeit this is really very far from being poor.
Right as I write this post, our home in Dallas is being packed up and loaded in a van line. When we built our home a few years ago, I never envisioned leaving it behind and packing off to a far away place. We chose all our home accents and every piece of furniture in the house painstakingly. We decorated our home with great love and passion. Salman has always been passionate about having a beautiful home and that in turn help me discover my hidden flair for decorating. It breaks my heart to think that this nest we so lovingly built is being torn down into pieces I may never be able to collect again. I wanted to go and see the home one last time before the final move, but that didn't happen and all for a reason perhaps. I would have been bawling out in the front yard once again!
However, the important thing to remember is that we are all here and can make a cozy home wherever we live together. So looking beyond all the materialistic aspects and appreciating the spirit of love and affection we share as a family, I march on to make this new place a home sweet home
I'll miss the Dallas home too :( :( But its ok...now we'll have a new home in Seattle! :)
ReplyDeletedearest vandu,
ReplyDeleteu know even sunil felt how cud i adjust in just 2 rooms, but when we hv a bigger house we keep collecting stuff which we don't use so often instead when it's small it's so much more in our control...
i m happy tht i cud come and stay there b4 u left it. cos the one and only reason to get a US visa for me was to come to ur home which u'd done up with so much love, all ur efforts... i knew how u'd decorated each every nook and corner of the house...i remember how we'd been to fab and got the curtains and then the lamps and stuff like that...
no probs ya vandu, i feel u've got another chance to decorate a place... a new place a new home... i know u'll definately buy a new bigger place than the one in Dallas...
I am sure the new home will be equally beautiful. I loved the pics. Sure its painful but again isnt change the only thing that's permanent? Hope to see the new place pics soon :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Fancy, Dnyanada and Perception ... It feels nice to read to these sweet words from all you guys..
ReplyDeleteI promise the new home pics will be up soon ... !!