Packing My Old Life Away

We had quite a relaxing weekend, spent mainly at home which makes for a lovely change.

Well for me anyway, poor Cameron worked all day on Saturday and then yesterday we spent all day working around the house, organising, tidying and cleaning up.

Yesterday I packed the last of my horse gear out of the nursery and into boxes in the shed. The dirty things like rugs, saddlecloths etc were already in the shed but in the nursery I had my show gear, chaps, helmet, gloves, new rugs, hoods, browbands, bridles, whip etc.

It is now all packed away in the shed. It was quite a strange feeling doing it actually, packing this stuff away and not knowing when or if I will use it again.

Of course packing things away also brings back a lot of memories, although with my last horse Jack we had our fair share of problems, he was quite a difficult horse, undeniably horses are my passion and have been since I was a small child, for as long as I can remember I have always had a pony or a horse, apart from one 6 month break I had between my soulmate horse Elvis, who to this day I still regret selling and when I brought Jack.

I am very excited about the next stage of my life and am not particulary sad about not having a horse anymore, I gues it is just the realisation that things will never be the same again.

Even if I do get another horse, there will be no spending hours at the stables talking with friends, getting up at the crack of dawn and mostly before then to go to a show would require a hell of a lot more planning, and when I come home from a show there will be no having of a long hot shower and then relaxing on the lounge with takeaway pizza looking at the photos and footage from the day.

From now I am somebodys Mother.... somebody that will be reliant on me in every aspect 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Somebody who is going to look to me for love, guidance, attention, reassurance, direction, discipline, fun and many more things I am sure.

I am so excited and oh so ready for this, I guess it is just now starting to sink in that my life will never be the same again, no longer will I be able to just hop in the car and go for a drive, just little things like that.

I am however more than ready to embrace this next step in my life.

So here is a photo of my old life packed neatly away in the shed. I said to Cameron, I can't believe how much stuff I had for one horse! He replied to me that he can't belive how much stuff I have for no horse!

Yes ironic I know but to sell my gear and have to replace it down the track would just be rediculous and cost us an absolute fortune!

Thought I'd add in a pic of my old horse Jack also, just for old times sake. He was so beautiful, if only he had a brain to go with it!

And one more...

And here is a picture of some bubby clothes I brought online from Pumpkin Patch, such lovely quality. Really must stop buying baby clothes, Bub has sooo many clothes!
The picture didn't turn out too well as I took it on our cream bed spread.
Note the blue beanie and booties, I think I have a little blue bundle in my belly! I guess time will tell.

I am not at work today as I have uni exams, so really must be off to do some last minute study.