We are quickly ramping up our preparation for our departure to Tegus. Our plan is to take the summer off and travel and visit family during June and July before we leave the country at the end of July. We have to be out of our house by June first and we are spending most of our time doing the odd house repairs and maintenance that we have been neglecting to do. It is sort of funny that we are motivated to do all this work to our house and we are not even going to be living there.
Garage sales are such an amazing event. We had our first one a couple of weeks ago and it was crazy! It seems like the entire community comes out to these events. We figured that our sale was especially good because we are not just selling the stuff we do not want anymore but we are selling cool stuff that still like.
Having a garage sale has reminded us how cluttered our lives had become. For some reason we tend to accumulate stuff in our society, stuff that we don't actually need. Children tend to exaggerate the stuff accumulation. All that stuff creates a clutter problem and the clutter tends to take over. It is nice to get a leg up on all that clutter. I am imagining that our lives in Honduras will be simpler on many levels and hopefully less cluttered!
Next job: Paint the picket fence!
Hey Eric! We're having a garage sale this weekend. We're crossing our fingers for no rain. Here's to a simpler life! Even if they have an Applebee's in Teguc. :)
ReplyDeleteTegucigalpa? Simple? Ahhh. I hope it's simple for you, but life seem complicated when you first move to a foreign country. I am finishing up a year of teaching in Tegu. Next year, I plan on working with other projects, but teaching is a worthwhile and valued endeavor. Best wishes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reality check Laurie. We enjoy reading your blog! We are certainly not expecting everything to be easy! After reading your blog and others we are feeling pretty well informed...
ReplyDeleteYour comment has me thinking about the difference between simple and simplify. It can be so not simple to simplify, or something like that...