A few weeks ago I wrote about not "being as calm as I appear" in the process of deciding to move house. So much has happened in the last two weeks. On a Sunday two weeks ago we extended our search for a new home to Orewa - 20 minutes north of here. The third Open Home we visited that day ticked all the boxes we were looking for! It did so so convincingly that we went back the next day with two very helpful nephews-in-law, one of whom is a builder. They agreed it was a great find. So there and then we made an offer (conditional on the sale of our house) which was accepted. It all happened so quickly that it is still hard to believe. Since then it has been a flurry of activity to get our house fully "on the market". A marvellously helpful person from Church did three hours sterling work the day before the first Open Home here last Sunday. Two more Open Homes happened this weekend and about twenty sets of people have come through altogether. No offers yet but hopefully it will all happen just as quickly as ours did when the right person surfaces.
We are already reflecting on how quickly our attention has shifted from wanting to stay in Torbay (where we live now) to being excited about all that Orewa offers. While the Open Home was on here today we went up to Orewa and explored the lovely walkway round a small lake immediately adjacent to our house and then five minutes further on to an estuary walkway and cycle way. I am reminded once again that clinging to the known can so easily prevent opening to new vistas, new adventures. It is a life long lesson to keep learning - for me at any rate! Watch this space for the next episode when our house sells! Then I will add photos.
