Changes

For the past few years, we'd been house hunting, knowing we were ready to settle down in one location so the kids wouldn't have to keep making new friends every three years.  As a family in the Air Force, moving is inevitable.  Nick joined a new program (for him) which would put him in one location for three years, with two of those years on deployment.  Once he was accepted into the program, we found our forever home in NC and the kids and I quickly settled in last summer.  We were excited to move and get the kids and I settled into our forever area.  We love living in the Raleigh area.  It's a great place for our family.

Our first seven months in our new home was difficult.  We didn't know anyone in our neighborhood and when the kids would try, the other kids would run away.  So sad.  The only friends were the friends at activities.  But then there were never play dates.  I had our calendar jam packed and Wednesday's were our only day at home.  It's my fault.  I wanted the kids to get acclimated to our new area and in hopes make some good friends.  So activities was my solution.  Only it didn't work until a month ago, when I decided to pull them out to free up some of our time.  They now have 12 neighbor friends they play with nearly every day and have had a play date with their friends from gymnastics.  The kids are having a blast playing outside and staying out late nearly every night.  The families in our area have been great and easy to make friends with.  It makes living here a whole lot easier and a lot more fun 😌

You'd think we'd get used to moving around, making new friends, and adjust a little easier since we've done it so often.  But, I think it's gotten a little more difficult.  I used to enjoy moving around.  I looked at it as a chance to start fresh.  Now that we have kids, I feel bad.  Bad that they have to say goodbye to their friends and start over.  So when we had the opportunity to buy our forever home, I knew the kids could make friends and not start fresh every three years.  That made me excited.

Life is good.