just pretend

I was just looking over my blog to see where i left off and I couldn't believe in such a short time our life has been completely flipped upside down.

I have pictures of events with friends, Christmas celebrations and yet here I am sitting in a nice home in Houston Texas just a few weeks later.

I feel slightly overwhelmed by the amount we have been through from listing our home, staging our home, showing the home and ultimately selling our home (8 days, yea!).  We have packed a gigantic 3400 sq ft home ourselves, placed the boxes in the garage, placed the boxes into the truck and then unpacked it within about 1 - 2 weeks.  And who could forget the horrible, awful part...Saying goodbye.

All the build up and excitement of moving is fun.  I enjoyed most of it (not the packing) but hated saying goodbye.  I still get choked up about it, I still hurt from it and I still miss all my beautiful family and friends.  There were a few goodbyes that I honestly felt like I could not handle.  I couldn't handle how strong my heart ached to say goodbye.  I pretended for so long that it was not really happening when I was around them.  Like, I wouldn't think about not seeing them until that day.  Well, that day came, and my heart nearly broke in two.

I spoke with a good friend of mine, Erica House, who is a military wife, moves frequently and yet handles it all so well.  She explained how I felt perfectly.  Deep down you know you may never see these people again but you just have to pretend you will.

That is how I have handled it. 

I hate for one of my first posts to be sad but I really do want those wonderful people to know I think about them everyday and even shed tears for you.  I love you all so much and I feel like our life in Colorado was made substantially better by you in it.

Now on to the many adventures of Texas!  I mean the OCEAN is just over an hour away.  Come On!  That is so crazy to me!  Cruises, like the Disney one, leave from there!  WOW!  Hello, we are doing that for sure.

This will be the first of MANY posts to come about the transition to TX and what we have been up to these last few weeks.  I promise...Many pictures (as always) and many stories.  I mean I am a stay at home mom...I have TONS of time.  Haha (not really for all of you who do not have children, that myth is just that, a myth and my day is full, all the time, with no lunch break or 15 minute breaks or even really time to use the restroom for that matter).