Westward Ho!

Life keeps moving, and to try to stay still is like trying to hold grains of sand in your hand- Linda Cardellini

Linda makes a good point here.  We can't stay still no matter how much we want to.  Plus what she forgot to add is that all that sand will just end up on my minivan floor and in my house where I will be cleaning it for months.....

When my husband's company restructured his main team moved from Virginia to Minnesota.  Things changed and we needed to change with them.  So now we are moving to Minnesota.  

I have a love hate relationship with change.  When my husband tried to pump my memory for any Minnesota recollections (I was born there and lived there for about 4 or fiver years) all I could remember is snow and bees.  Not an incredibly promising wealth of information here.  So he gave up on me being helpful.   

There are things that excite me.  Schools are good up there, I've been talking with our new school district and they have been amazing.  I'm cautiously impressed.  They have a really great hospital for complex kids and there are no waitlists for services.  Those things bring me hope that we will be able to get the kids' needs met.  

Then there are the things that flat out terrify me.  My kids have good teams and therapists here.  They took forever to find but once we did they blossomed.  My support base is here.  These are the people who are walking similar journeys. They get what we are going through.  I can call, text, send smoke signals and they are there.  They are irreplaceable.  And it's hard to leave them.  

But I'm strong and resilient.  So are my kids. I know we can do hard things together.  So we will go forward and continue hoping for things to keep looking up.  This isn't the end of the story, only the end of the chapter in our life journey.