Saying goodbye and finally letting go is the hardest thing to do :-(

So the last month that we stayed in our house (April) was very hard :-(

The thing is, when packing up and moving.. even when it is into storage, we still experience it as trauma.

We listed our home in February already to rent it out, and we had had some viewings, but no takers.

Mr Cloete asked one of the agents what the people were saying about the house, and she said that they do not like the kitchen and they think it is too much money to ask for a place like ours.

The thing is, we have been living in our house for almost 4 years now, and we LOVE it!

And obviously we no longer saw all the things a tenant would see as "wrong" when viewing our house.

We had worked so hard at transforming an old neglected house into something we loved.

and we felt that it was BEAUTIFUL :-).... obviously they didn't share our opinion.

Anyway so in the very last week that we were still in our circle, we decided to do some paint touch-ups and unfortunately the paint-shop didn't mix the paint exactly like they did the previous time, and we ended up having to repaint the WHOLE house....

Even more stress!

But I really like the way our kitchen looks now.

Still old-fashioned, I know...
It was really terrible.

And in-between I tried to organise goodbyes with everyone I love ... and failed to get to everyone...

So by the time we eventually left - we were really not so excited anymore.

Oh goodness... what a way to start our adventure :-(