2 Months

When I woke up this morning, I realized that it was 2 months ago that we officially purchased the house in the Poconos. (Which means on Thursday it will be 3 months since I sold my mother's house at the Jersey shore. The dry autumn thus far you can thank me for. I was such a wreck every time we had a storm at the shore that I couldn't take it. Now that I've sold the house, there's been no storm. You're welcome.) I hadn't been thinking about it at all until last night when we got our NJ mail and there was the formalized title/deed/paperwork sitting in our mailbox. A reminder that this is really real. (As if all the furniture that I've bought, the movers, the electric and water bills, etc. didn't make it really enough!) Two months ago I/we bought a house. I'm in my mid/late 50s (ouch) and I opened myself to the possibility of living somewhere else other than where I have been for most of my life. It's exciting. It's...