Guess who's back....

Okay, after a brief, yet crazy busy seven month break, I am back again. I had a few things to get in order.

We have moved. Like big time moved. Portland, OR to Friday Harbor, WA. By all accounts it's only a 5 hour drive and then an ferry ride, but let me be the first to tell you I feel like we are a million miles from home. In a good way. I love Portland. I will always love Portland. I met wonderful people in that town. That is the birth place of my two baby girls. Matt and I started our married life there. We grew up a little there. We bought our first home there. Portland is a good place. However, we are not city mice. We like our country living.

When the chance came to move to the San Juan Islands we just couldn't refuse. Matt and I met on Orcas Island. We always said that one day we would move up to this area again and buy land and build a little place to live. We both thought we would be old. We did not expect to have the rare good fortune to raise our family here. It feels like it was meant to be. Little doors just kept opening up for us allowing us to be able to move here. Getting here seemed rather easy minus the part about packing a house with a one year old and a three year old. That story is for another day.

Truth be told, we are in a little bit of culture shock. Lyla wonders where "Trader Joes" is. We have tried for a week to buy a SIMPLE wall calendar with cute animal pictures, but just can't seem to find a local place that sells them. Everything takes a few days longer here and the speed limit is only 45... on the fast roads... and there is no stop light... anywhere. We pass a camel on our drive to town. This is life as we know it now. It's random here. However I also know that Matt and I will fit in nicely with our little family. I am so excited to be able to raise the girls here. Matt and I made a little deal the other night. We both agreed to do whatever it takes to live here for a long time. We want to make this our home. So now we are working to figure this place out.

We just found the secret grocery store for locals so we are well on our way.