I’ve already begun to experience my new normal…
For the first time ever, I just bought a quart of milk. Only a QUART! With no one here to drink it all, my dairy budget just took a nose dive.
The house is eerily quiet this afternoon and will be for the next four days while Mark gets Blake settled in his new house off campus at CSU. So strange.
My clean rooms are staying clean.
My laundry DOES end at the end of the day.
No random Q-tips in surprising places.
I don’t have to cook.
I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to.
I can listen to or watch whatever I want.
And yet…
All of these things that we think we look forward to in terms of an easier lifestyle still signify a loss. Loss of the normal interactions and chemistry of the family as it was. Loss of a routine. Loss of a role and, in some ways, an identity. Loss of knowing exactly what to do with yourself at any given moment.
Living in a new place and beginning a new chapter of life is definitely creating a new normal. Some days I imagine will (and have) feel fun and exciting. Other days will leave me feeling a little “off”. But time makes the new become familiar and eventually beloved.
So….the question remains….Anyone wanna be completely spontaneous and come and see me this weekend in this quiet little house???? 🙂
