Thursday, June 9, 2016

Becoming Residents of a New State

This week we became residents of Pennsylvania: new drivers licenses, new license plates, registered to vote, and completed all our U.S. mail forwarding.  Both my husband and I have mixed feelings about it all.  It's almost as if we are mourning the loss of our New England identity combined with it marking the end of our six month family adventure.  We are incredibly grateful to finally be living a reasonable driving distance from a lot of family.  We know we are fortunate enough to be able to find jobs so quickly.  We are definitely blessed to be living in a townhouse community that offers us more then we could ever need, including one of the safest neighborhoods I think we have ever lived in (and we have lived in some incredibly safe places!)  There is so much to be grateful for and yet there is this unsettling feeling that can't be placed. I've been told in the past by many people that I'm not the best at navigating simplicity or complacency so I'm wondering if that has anything to do with this unsettlement.  Or it could simply be that we have only been her for 4 full weeks so far so it doesn't quite feel real yet...  ok, probably that's the issue.  We were hopping around so much that I still feel like we are going to be moving again!