I’ve had more than a couple of people ask recently if our sudden (and I do mean sudden) house sale and subsequent move was a “good thing” or not. The answer to that is a resounding, “yes.” We’ve been planning to sell our house for some time now and, while we expected it to take longer than 17 hours and it was more than a little sad to leave our first house for the last time on Friday, it’s exactly what we wanted to do. Closing on the house Friday was the end of Chapter 3 in our lives. “What were the other chapters?” you ask?

Chapter 1 began when Rebecca and I got married in 1999. It was a short chapter, lasting just a few months and ending in a cliffhanger with us moving away to the big city of Dallas. Chapter 2 began with the move to Dallas and then eventually with us going to the REALLY big cities of New York City and San Francisco, then settling back in the regular big city of Dallas, ending with the purchase of our first house.

The first 2 chapters were nothing to sneeze at, but Chapter 3 is going to be hard to beat. Chapter 3 was a big one. It was the one that sets the tone for the rest of the book. The chapter began with us purchasing our first house, moving in on a Thanksgiving morning, eating Thanksgiving lunch at a McDonald’s inside a Wal-Mart SuperCenter while everyone else was having turkey and all the fixings. It then progressed to Rebecca graduating from college and then getting the job she really wanted. Then, things got interesting. Along came Madi and the book began to go in a much different direction (and a much better one) than we’d been thinking it would. It’s amazing how much those little tricycle motors can change things up in ways you never thought they might.

So ends Chapter 3. It’s definitely going to be hard to beat that one, but just think, if such an early chapter was THAT exciting, imagine what’s in store for the rest of the book! Chapter 4 will be a short but exciting chapter. After being back in an apartment for just a few days, it’s already plainly obvious that it will be full of prime story-telling opportunities. Like the one about the 3 police cars at our building the night we moved in, arresting 2 kids for growing pot in their apartment. Or maybe the one about the people who live above us who are apparently raising a small herd of horses that like to stomp around all hours of the night, just to see how much they can make our lights shake.

The move is over and we’re almost unpacked, which was certainly interesting with Madi “helping” out. Thank goodness for daycare and for the visit from her Mimi and Papaw, or we’d still be moving and the buyers of our house would be homeless, but getting rich with the ridiculous rent we’d have to pay them if we weren’t out by yesterday! Now that things should be settling down a bit, we’ll quickly get back to the things that any of you seem to really care about anyway, Madi photos…

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