to find a smaller house and sell our house. It wasn't our plan to find a lake house 2 hours away, but we loved everything about that house when we found it, except all the work it would need. We are getting too old for this. It is taking forever to do what we used to do in 2 weeks or a bit more. I didn't really plan for a new house to be as big as that one is, but with family having to visit, we need it. I wanted something like our old lake house, near enough that people could visit, but they are all scattering like dandelion fuzz in the wind.

The biggest holdup right now is my husband's and my daughter's health. Either one of them might change everything. For this minute I am going ahead and clearing out things. I have to get rid of sooooo much. It's daunting.