Well, we moved from Sterling, VA to Silver Spring, MD. It's hard to believe that six months ago, Patrick and I had a discussion where he said he would be happier if we lived back in MD, and I told him I was behind him 100%, but he had to take the first step and find a job there to make it happen. Little did I know that he would have secured a job within a few weeks, I would end up getting a job that let me work from VA until we moved and is now letting me transfer up here, we would sell our house with no problem, and we would find a new house that is perfect for us and have our offer accepted and are now moved in all in that amount of time. When we first had that conversation, I thought it would still be another year or two before we ended up back here in MD, but it really must have been meant to be, because it all came together SO easily.
We closed on our house one week ago, and moved in this past Thursday. We still have a little bit of unpacking and settling in to do, but if it helps to understand how good this house is for us, Katelyn says about 100 times a day - "I love my new house. I don't want to ever move again." And I think we all feel this way.
Today was Katelyn and Ethan's first day at a daycare center. This was hard for me for multiple reasons. The hardest part for me of this move was losing our babysitters. Shannon and her son Michael have been the greatest caretakers of our kids ever, and they have loved Katelyn and Ethan like they were a part of their family. So I definitely hate losing them, but I also hated taking the kids from them. Along with the home daycare situation, there were only a handful of kids, so exact schedules and structure were not needed, and basically Katelyn ran the house :P (If you know her, that shouldn't come as a surprise at all.) Now, they are at a center with a LOT of kids, so they follow a strict schedule and I'm not sure how they (especially Katelyn) will adapt. I am really curious to hear the report from their teachers and from Katelyn at the end of the day. I know this will be good for them to get used to schedules and rules before they end up starting school, change is just hard.
Tomorrow I will be starting at my job's office in Rockville, so I'm hoping to enjoy this location, commute, etc. It'll be an adventure for all of us to adapt to our new lives and experiences together. I am just happy that Patrick's temporary living situation closer to his work before we got the house was only 4 months and that we are now back together as a family :)
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