We moved to Utah. Sterling finished residency. Ruthie started Middle School. And today-Grace started preschool three times a week for two hours (which I'm already realizing is too short to accomplish much). It feels very surreal today. Sitting at my kitchen table, house completely silent, staring out at our own backyard (well, we have a rental, but it's ours for now), having just stopped at a case lot sale. HAHA--case lot sale!??!! Those things don't even exist in Florida. We also did not have a house. Or a backyard. We didn't have a bus that picked up kids. We didn't have neighbors that left garden fresh vegetables in 5 gallon buckets on our doorstep (although-Audrey and I had a pretty sweet food sharing gig when we were both baking haha). We didn't water our lawn. It wasn't 47 degrees when we woke up in the morning!! Pretty much everything that could change in a life, has. It's pretty wild actually. But also, it feels really normal.
We love Vernal. We love how close we are to loads of hiking, fishing, lakes to play on, and camping. We love the community, everyone has been so nice and welcoming, we've been invited to dinner almost every Sunday since we moved in. We love the rec center and their classes and child care and swimming pool. All the things that we were looking forward to in our faraway future--are here! Time with Sterling. No commute.
It isn't all unicorns and rainbows--Sterling works quite a bit more than we'd like right now. His team is all brand new which means there is a lot of little things they don't have running smoothly yet. He comes across glitches, like yesterday a patient that he saw said their insurance didn't work--but Sterling is supposed to be in network, so they had to figure all that out. It's a new EMR system so he's setting up all his note taking, etc. We're still waiting on our insurance to come through and that was supposed to be finished August 1. Ya know, the annoying little real life things--but it's coming along.
Last week Ruth started piano lesson and yesterday Molly and Will started lessons (Ruth has a different teacher, everyone here is booked, so I couldn't get all three with the same teacher unless we did different days and really late times, so Ruth's lesson is the same time as the other two and I just drive her right over after dropping them off.). Ruthie has YW and every week they do a morning session at the temple. We have a chore chart and Saturday work assignments on the fridge. The routine has begun.
Now that school has started with its hum drum pace of life-it's starting to sink in that we live here now. That we're not going back to Florida after this extended summer vacation. That Sterling doesn't have to work nights or weekends. Like I said, it's all very surreal. We worked towards this "ending" for almost 13 years. We miss Florida like crazy, I miss my friends so much, and I am NOT sure how I feel about our freezing mornings already. But it's very, very good.
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