On the Move...

I’ve considered starting a blog for a while now and have just been putting it off. Not so much because I was worried if people would care enough to read or anything like that, but just worried whether I would have the commitment to stick with it. I mean, what’s more disappointing then following someone’s blog only to have them suddenly stop, right about the time you really get interested.



Due to upcoming HUGE changes in our lives, I’ve now decided that it is the time to start. As some of you may know, we are about to make a big move in our lives, from my hometown of Columbus, GA, where we have been for the past 10-years to Washington State, compliments of the US Army. I’m very excited about this move, but would be lying if I didn’t admit to a huge mixture of emotions. I’m thrilled about the adventure, being somewhere new and the opportunity to be a stay at home mom. I’m sad to be leaving my family, my job that I’ve had for the past 10-years and a wealth of friends both new and old. I’m also, just a little scared. I’m scared of the logistics of the move. How do I get a husband, two children, a house full of things and too many dogs to count from one side of the United States to the other? Is my house going to sell? What will I find I’ve lost when I get there and begin to unpack the boxes? I’m hoping it isn’t my sanity. Will I be a successful at being a stay at home mom? It’s a whole new world out there guys and it’s unknown. It scares me a little, but I’ll try to tackle it the way I do everything else, with hope and prayer and a half-baked plan.


The plan is to make moving a Grand Adventure for the family. We’re going to DRIVE to Washington State. You read that right. We’re going to pack Mommy, Daddy and two kids into the car and drive from here to Washington State. That’s 50 hours in the car with a 6-year and 1-year old. We’re hoping that we’ll have about two weeks or so to complete this journey. I just hope that we don’t lose the adventure 2-hours and 200 hundred Are We There Yet’s later. The goal is to drive across the southern U.S. and then up the California and Oregon coast. If you know a MUST-NOT-MISS location along the way such as the world’s largest ball of twine, please feel free to let us know. We would love some ideas for unique stops along the way. Once we arrive in Washington, Daddy will fly back to Georgia; pick up our dogs and then do the whole thing over again. He is a good Daddy is all I know. We would fly our dogs, but unfortunately, neither English bulldogs nor boxers fly very well.


I’m hoping to keep a journal of my feelings and adventures along the way, if for nothing else, so maybe my kids can read it one day and think “Wow, Mom was even crazier than we thought.”