Signing in from Texas.
We began this blog to document our world travels. Starting in England and documenting trips to China, Korea, across the continental United States, Hawaii, etc. has been fantastic. This blog has also witnessed the expansion of our family, our fellow travelers in life and the joy of our existence.
And now we've taken a new step in our journey, this search for moments that swell life to its fullest. Moving away from family, familiar mountains, comfortable surroundings, we've taken a step out into a new and stretching adventure. We are, for the foreseeable future, Texans.
Making this decision was exciting. We grabbed a great opportunity, eager to experience new and more and different. But then we faced the realities of being separated from family--from cousins our kids saw as best friends, from parents who had real time and need and love for us, and from a large and welcoming extended family that nurtured close and enriching relationships for all of us. That is still the most difficult facet of our time here, and it's getting harder.
But when Dustin and I flew down to house hunt we felt the need to be here. Later, when we drove a car down for him to use at work (he started his job while the kids and I had finished summer in Utah) we felt it again: a resonating pull and sense of right-ness being here.
And so, based on prayers and that reverberation of home, we are here. And our drive to have not just a full life, but a fuller life--one we choose, one we conscientiously expand, one where we seek for deeper and whole-er impacts on our souls--has landed us in a new and wonderful place where we will keep expanding the good we've gathered. This blog is a receptacle, for now, of what we find.
Can't wait to share it with y'all!
