It’s Days Like These…

That make me love our decision to leave everything we had behind and search for a brand new path.

Ok, so maybe John is not on a completely new path (he’s still doing maintenance and lived in Colorado previously) but this has been foreign for me for sure.

Living at 8,000 ft above sea level, on a large wooded property far from the ocean, or a port of some type, and in a new field has had me go through so many mixed emotions that I’ve question who I am multiple times. It’s exactly what I needed.

I’ve been laid off before, and as with that situation I found that sometimes that push to go outside of your comfort zone is necessary to figure out where you really need to be. Don’t get me wrong the change in jobs, uncertainty about where we will live and being in a new town all at once has been a lot; but as I said, days like this are what makes it all ok.

After our FIRST Easter egg hunt OUTSIDE, we got to spend the day together working hard on property stuff. Followed by an amazing hike through the neighborhood and some baseball and badminton in the yard. And yes, I mean hike. From our lot to the top of where we go, there is about a 1500 foot climb.

It was a sunny 60 degrees (f) here; so everyone got a good dose of vitamin D. We traded 360+ inches of snow a year for 300+ days of sunshine. I can handle this. (Sorry Alaska friends)

Here’s to stopping to look out the window, hear the trees blowing in the breeze and long family walks…