We always have said that moving to Denver was going to be our great adventure as a family. We left everything that was familiar, comforting, supportive, and easy and traded it in for a new life in the mile hile city so Micah could persue his dream of teaching. Getting here was half of the adventure: months of uncertainity, crazy testing, and separation finally did lead to a full-time teaching position for Micah at a brand new charter school. So we starting packing up our lives in Portland to begin a new chapter miles away from our families and community. That would have been fun in of itself, but add it to finishing college (me) and pushing out a baby (also me...obviously), and we've experienced more stress in the past 6 months than the past 4 years of our marriage combined.
And so now here we are, basking in the full reality of our decision and people want to know: how the heck are we doing?
That's why we've decided to start a blog. Hopefully by recording our new life in Colorado, we can begin to piece together why so many doors closed for us in our hometown and why God seemed to be pushing us to this new place. Though everyone wants us to be intensely happy since we gave up so much to get here, the reality is that living a dream is not always easy and transistions are never seamless. My intention is to honestly describe how our lives have changed, even if "living the dream" isn't as easy or pretty as we hoped. After all, life is messy...but messy can be a lot of fun too.
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