It’s been kind of a crazy few days. My family is basically in the throes of a big ongoing serious financial discussion that promises to change the status quo, one way or another. And it’s very upsetting and stressful to me. I’m the kind of gal who loves a routine, and enjoys getting all familiar and sentimental and in a groove. Alas, my husband sees HIS current groove (employment-wise) as a rut, and he’s running around upsetting things, trying desperately to shake them up. My instinct is to just hope his feelings go away — I’ve been clinging to this hope for years now — but I’m pretty sure they won’t, and we’re headed for major change.
What does this have to do with diet, health and fitness? Well, it turns out I do pretty well, diet-wise, unless I’m stressed or lonely or….
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I wrote that a few weeks ago, and I was right… now we are looking at moving, yes… moving. This time it’s pretty major, involving changing jobs, changing states, selling major assets. It might as well be changing countries, our expected lifestyle will be so different. Hopefully we’ll also be less poor, we’ll have more room, and we’ll be closer to family. Fingers crossed.
Holy! That’s a lot of “goings on”! Big M…branching out on his own finally? Whatever it is, “less poor” and “more room” and “closer to family” all sound like real positives! I guess it’s just getting through the change to the other side where all the positive lives that can be the challenge. How are the “babies”? Ha! Hardly babies any more!
xoxo Mia
Well, C. is definitely a baby no longer, and R. turns one year old in a month!! I’m afraid he’s going to start walking soon and I’ll have to call him a “toddler” and not a baby! Shocking!
Yes, this is big stuff and scary, but now that we are getting more comfortable with the idea, it really feels like the right thing (hopefully moving to Austin, TX, to be closer to family and have a lower cost of living). I just need to find a job!
Other scary part is that it’s easy to paint a rosy picture now, before the big move is made, but are we being realistic about how much better life will be? Or are we just going from the frying pan into the fire? I have got to say that living within driving distance of brother, father, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. could be a very cool thing, especially as we want the boys to know their family like we both did, growing up.
Anyway, I’m drinking wine and getting verbose so I should stop. Oh, but one more thing, C. is playing tonight with the great present you guys got him for his 1st birthday – that little truck. So we were talking about you and M. asked “do you ever hear from her?” and I was happy to say I still do keep in touch, in my way…
oh my lord! i thought you’d been a wee bit quiet! hope it’s all going okay…