On moving and growing: a very delayed update.

Four months without a blog post …

A lot has happened since I last wrote. Tomorrow is David’s first birthday! Unbelievable. He has two teeth (the bottom two in front) and is starting to walk. He’s not full-on walking, but he can stand very well and can make it several steps without toppling. It still usually ends in a face-plant, but he’s getting better daily. A whole world of new adventures awaits. He loves playing outside and just had his first pool experience, which went swimmingly 🙂 Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun.

Michael changed jobs in April so we could relocate back to Missouri. We’ve been here about a month now, living with my dad and stepmom and searching for a house. Our feelings about the move are varied: very excited, very sad, very stressed, very blessed. We left behind dear friends who became family, a church where we were deeply involved, and a state that had transformed into our home. We said goodbye to our apartment – the first place we lived together as a married couple and where we had our first child. We traded Lake Michigan’s dunes and beaches for sticky summer humidity. And yet, there’s no place like home, and we are home. David is basking in the love of relatives, especially his three sets of grandparents. He’s also loving play dates with his cousin Lucas, who turns two years old today! They’re so cute together, they really do love each other’s companionship. We hope once we find a house, we can start to truly feel settled. But in the meantime, we’re beyond grateful for the hospitality and rent-free living.

My new plan for this blog is to post a short snippet every day. Long posts apparently just aren’t in the cards right now. Life is crazy hectic with an almost one-year-old living in a semi-childproofed house along with our rabbit and two parrots, trying to catch up with everyone we’ve been missing the past several years, searching for a house, adjusting to Michael’s new job, etc. Maybe someday things will calm down, although I doubt I’ll have ample time to kick back in the near or distant future.

Life is good. Crazy, but good.