We moved to Texas, y’all! I am still in shock. We have been here a month now, and finally getting settled in. I’m sure we won’t feel fully settled for a while, but at least we got the computer up and running, and most of the boxes unpacked. I can’t believe we actually made it happen. AND we are pregnant with a baby boy. Third time’s a charm! There has been so much happening in the past few months, I feel like my head is still spinning. That was not an easy season AT ALL. But we made it through, like we knew we would.
Now we begin the next tough season of building a life in a whole new place without our friends and family. I saw a picture of Scott and our friends on our refrigerator today that made me a cry a little. We are excited for this new chapter, AND we are grieving leaving behind some pretty important people. Both are true at the same time. Slowly but surely, we will find our community here and everything will be exactly what we make of it.
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I saved that draft one day and never got back to writing. But today is a few days later and I felt compelled to sit and ramble. I have been continuing to unpack today while the girls ran around and played and made messes. Scott just got home from work and is sitting on the floor behind me doing crafts with the girls, I have dinner in the oven, and the dog is on the floor with us chewing his bone. I am extremely tired, but I am so content.
We took a bit of a pay cut at first to come out here, so we decided against paying for Sienna to go to pre-k . Instead, I ordered a pre-k homeschool curriculum and we are going to try that out this year and see how it goes. We also joined a homeschool fellowship group and will do meets and park days and field trips with them. And we started going to church and we found one we like so far. And we have started to make friends and learn the places around us. It seems like there is already so much happening, but so much more still to look forward to.
I can’t believe we are going to have a new baby here in under 5 months. It is going by so quickly and I am so afraid and feel so ill prepared for three children. We also got rid of ALL our baby stuff, so we are starting all over again. Thankfully it is baby #3 so we really won’t need a ton. Also thankfully, Christmas will come before baby arrives, so hopefully we can get help in the form of Christmas gifts!
Well, I am tired as hell so I guess this is a short one.
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”