Dazed...and Confused

It really hits me when I get up out of bed most mornings. I'll open the shades and see the mountain view. It's so breathtaking, it doesn't seem real to me. That's when I find myself saying "I'm really here?" It still seems surreal to me.

I guess it all started here. My husband took me out to dinner one night.

Hey...we should go out to dinner...we haven't gone out to dinner in a while.

I should have seen it coming then. Oh who am I kidding. I did see it coming. I knew. It was no surprise. Kevin went on an interview in November of 2010. I was scared of my mind then because I was five months pregnant and worried I'll have to move when very pregnant. The interview went well (of course) and he came home...and time passed. December came...and went...January came....

So what's going on with...

Oh they won't hire me...conflict of interest.

Eventually my pregnancy and the birth and my third child allowed me to shelve any thoughts about moving. I ended up into a comfortable routine of 'comfortable'. Then May came...

Hey...we should go out to dinner...

I knew it was coming. There had been little saying here and there that piqued my interest. So when we were out to dinner I said "Hey so what every happened to..."

"Well that's funny you should ask...I got an offer...

That night I sat on the couch and looked around. I made a list in my head of everything that needed to go. Then I made another list of everything we needed to do. Then I started thinking of how to tell everyone.

I didn't even get the chance to tell everyone. My neighbors showed up shocked at my house when the moving van and the for sale sign arrived in front of my house.

"Where are you going? Is everything ok?"

"We are fine...Kevin got a job in Tucson...it's just all moved so fast. Too fast to even tell everyone or keep track of who we told".

I didn't see my neighbors alot. Only two on a daily basis and they knew. People in town knew, friends knew, family knew...well most of them.

So here I am...embracing change every day. An east coast girl...has packed up and gone west. Not too west...but pretty darn west...I moved here hoping for an adventure...

Life is an adventure...that's what my dad told me. And it's an adventure if I make it one.