Yesterday was a big day of working my butt off. I started at 10:00 AM hoping to finish the landscaping in my side yard. After a quick trip to Home Depot, I cut landscaping fabric and staked it to the ground to keep weeds from growing. I laid down ten wheelbarrow’s full of dirt and gravel. I mixed and poured concrete to secure the edges of the brick patio. I laid down Mexican tile near the water spicket to help keep the area from getting muddy. Finally, I potted several Aloe Vera plants and put a few other plants in the ground. I took a quick dip in the pool, then drove over to Candyce’s house to help her move to a new house.

Normally you move from to a new house because it has a better floor plan, a bigger yard, or because you just wanted a bigger house. Well Candyce’s new house is the exact floor plan as the one she’s lived in for the past year. The outside looks the same, and so is the inside. There is absolutely no difference except the location.

If it was possible, we could’ve just uprooted the house and flown in five miles west and dropped it into a better neighborhood. Since that’s not possible, we packed up the house one box at a time, then packed it into a huge U-Haul truck. Once we got to the new house, we unloaded everything and put it exactly where we found it. There was no guessing where things should go. Then it was back to the other house to empty it out.

At eleven o’clock at night, the four of us plopped down on the couches and looked around the new house, almost full with furniture. But it didn’t feel that good. Moving; into a new house is usually exciting. You sit down in the same couch from the old house, and you look around a bigger and better living room. You spend hours discussing what new you should buy to fill the blank walls. But we did none of that. We sat down in the sofas and looked at the same room we started out with seven hours before—except we were five miles west.

By the end of the day, my body was so battered and tired. Its not often I get so physically exhausted like that. This morning, I woke up to the birds chirping and the breeze coming through my bright room. I just stayed still underneath the light sheet and enjoyed the moment.