Moving

Life likes to give us lemons, it's up to us to make them into lemonade. For my family and it seems me in particular, the biggest lemon that I keep being handed is frequent moves. We just got to El Paso (not so yay) in June of 2011. We are moving to the Seattle area (yay!) this coming June. It's the end of March. Well, the house that we are living in is slated for renovation, so the leasing company is moving us a few streets over on Tuesday.

So, instead of focusing on my encaustic series, I'm having to focus on getting this house ready to be packed up, and to once again worry myself sick over how the movers are going to treat my art and my supplies. They send in this great hoard of packers and you're hard pressed to keep up with two of them manhandling your things let alone six of them!

Now, I'm just wondering how to make the best lemonade possible out of this situation. Since these houses don't really have an extra room for me to use as my studio, I've been using the garage, which it seems is constantly being ransacked by our four kids, and my husband who likes to leave his tools hanging around. Maybe now all of the things that they like to get into can just stay in boxes and I'll have a clean studio space for the next two months? I could also choose not to put together our extra bed, and perhaps use that room to photograph my paintings. Hmmmm.......that sounds like halfway decent lemonade to me....