Purging........

It felt good really.  Going though all those no longer needed work clothes - blazers, dress pants, business suits........oh yeah , it felt real good!  As both Greg and I prepare for our life in MX we spent a good deal of time going through our closets and very carefully created piles.  One pile for the Salvation Army, one pile for friends & family (who are still working!), and a special pile to take with us.  We've been warned about "getting rid of all your cold weather clothes" by many of our new friends in Chapala.  They insist that we will too one day  will wear socks with our sandals on those chilly January mornings.  Being Canadian Cottagers we are confident that will never happen.  But who knows, we never thought we'd be heading off to Mexico to retire either!  Funny how things change, how what you thought years ago you'd never do, you're now doing!  Maybe the same with the socks & sandals......??
We know the things we definately won't miss.  Shovelling snow, cold dark long winter days, tax bills.. but we sure are thinking alot of the stuff we will miss.  Our children for example - as time gets closer to the big move  we think and talk often of how much we will miss the regular visits, watching our grandchildren's school plays, being there as our children become parents themselves.   Thank goodness for Skype and airplanes.
 "Going to Grama & PaPa's will just take a little longer to get to, we've convinced ourselves all will be fine.
And fine it all is.......