In January, Devin and I had a huge decision to make…where we
wanted to spend the next three years of our lives. We painfully made lists of
pros and cons and tried to come up with the perfect choice. Narrowing down the
entire country to three locations we headed to our beloved Caribbean to get
away and just relax, talk, and decide. During our 10-day retreat we spend
countless hours and miles meandering down the remote beach at sunset and
chatting while we collected sea glass. I am not sure I can think of a time that
I have felt more content and happy! On our last day we agreed that while New
York has permanently brazen itself into our hearts it was time to move closer
to home. In the end it boiled down to the fact that you can always fill the
voids of adventure, identity, and even friends, but you can never replace
family. Ergo, we decided to head back to Seattle and settle close to both
families! Here is my favorite pictures of my entire relationship with Devin and our "decision making" trip...
Landing at JFK life it us like a ton of bricks: moving
trucks were reserved, house searching commenced, and the job search was on!
Since then Devin was accepted at a Family Medicine residency in the Seattle area,
we made all of our moving plans, I accepted a my dream position at the
children’s hospital of my dreams (eek!), we shipped our car and motorcycle,
took a final Eastern Seaboard vacation, bought a house (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), Devin
graduated and is officially Dr. Devin, we packed all of our belongings into a
huge moving truck, drove cross-country, and moved into our new home. It has
been a whirlwind, but I looking back on these past five years I cannot help but
tear up with gratitude for blessings and beauty of my life! We are making lots
of changes to our first home and we are excited to share those with you as we
go. The picture on the left is the first time I went to see the house (after we had put in an offer!) and the picture to the right is us arriving to OUR home for the first time after an emotionally charged, exhausting, chaotic, four-day drive across the country!
I had placed JJTulum and this blog on hold as I was buckling
under the stress of everything else going on. JJTulum will remain on hold for
the time being; I need time to settle, start my new job, make a new business
plan and make my home my haven first. For those of you who have been waiting to
purchase bags…fear not, they will be back, no guarantees when, but they will!!!
Blogging…well we are excited to share our endless projects and updates on our
home with you here in the meantime. I will keep JJTulum updates on here as well
when we are up and running again.
Thank you for all the love and support, the help, emails,
prayers, and cheering! I miss New York so much and always will, my heart found
a home there, but it is so wonderful to be back in Seattle with friends and
family…you are precious and the reason we are back!!!
