Tired & Waiting

Monday, August 15, 2011 5:30 pm
We are sitting on the front steps and waiting for our tenants. Totally exhausted. Our bodies hurt. Our minds are numb. We are too tired to feel excitement or anything.
For the last 10 days we have been existing on 4 to 5 hours sleep and working, working, working on the endless list of things that must be completed for this moment now.
The endless 'to do' list is done or we are too tired to think of the things we have missed.
A very impressive shiny new BMW with New York plates arrives and our tenant gets out. He is well dressed, polite, seems very responsible but oh so young. Doubts fill the mind. Are we out of our minds to give him the keys to our most valuable possession, our home?
The other tenants arrive, the tour, this is here, that is there, do this, don't do that. Handshakes and keys are exchanged and we are out the door.
As we sit in our fully packed 2006 Pontiac Torrent (bought 2 days ago) we realize that this a watershed moment in our lives - our lives before now and our lives after now. There is no turning back and we are too exhausted to feel anything.