I have some serious catching up to do here. I will start with the latest news: we are moving!
Rob and I have been ready for a change for a while. And by a while I mean A w-h-i-l-e. From the day we got married, we have been talking about moving. Eleven years passed and zip, nada, nothing. Last year we decided we were done with school and the planning began soon after. Should we move up north? Near mountains? Do we want hot or cool weather? Big city or small town? The options were endless for us. Our final decision was to live near the beach. We absolutely love it and visit every chance we get.
We started researching different cities and immediately knew that we didn’t want to move far away from our family. On my birthday weekend, we met a local in Port Aransas, TX that could not stop talking about how much her children loved growing up there and how great the schools were. That sealed the deal and we decided to move near that cute town.
Rob patiently waited for an opportunity and applied for a position within his agency late last month. His employer confirmed two weeks ago that he reports to his new office on September 3. I am staying behind to take care of some last minute packing.
We found a cute apartment 10 miles from the beach and we are hoping to purchase our forever home in the next couple of years. Yes my friends, we get the best of both worlds by moving. We get to live near the beach and we are 2 hours south from Rob’s family and 2 north from my family. We are smack dab in the middle of both :-). And of course, we get to stay in Texas y’all. We are so, so, so excited. Yehaa!
Now, back to business. We have been on the wait list for:
Current longest waiting family has been waiting for (months):
35
We are about #44 on the list and #37 on the single child list.
On our 24 month waiting anniversary, we went apartment hunting. We stopped by the beach afterwards and sat near the water to decide on which place we would call home in a few weeks. That day was beautiful. The sky was bright blue and the weather was perfect. I can already see us in the near future building a sandcastle with our son…every. single. weekend.
Happy 24 months waiting!!!
Congrats on your move!! what a great place to raise a family! Hoping our kiddos are home sooner than later!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ashley! We are super excited and super, duper busy :).
DeleteCongatulations on the move! And I have no idea why I remember this, but didn't you post a blog a long time ago about how you were thinking about when you got your referral and, the way you pictured it, you were in a different home than the one you're in now? Just sayin' :-)
ReplyDeleteThrilled you're getting closer!
Jean
Yes Jean! I dreamt in Feb '12 that we got our our referral and rob dreamt he was holding him and in both dreams we were in a different home. We thought of the same thing as we were planning the move and think it's very neat :).
DeleteWoop woop! It means you will live close to your sister, and I will be close to my future nephew!!!! Yay! Finally some family will be a little closer!!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your move!!! I love how positive you are in your monthly update posts. It's hard to stay that way after such a long wait and with so much uncertainty. Keep hanging in there!
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