Well, hello everyone. Thank you for visiting my blog and taking an interest in my life! As I enter into an amazing period of change and transition in my life I will look to this blog as a place to share and reflect on my experiences and to maintain and build connections with people important to me who are both near and far away. If you are reading this you count as one of those important people! Thank you for being in my life and for all of your support! Please come back to check in on me and feel free and encouraged to post comments from time to time so I don't feel like I'm out here just talking to myself!

As I said, my life has changed drastically in the last couple of weeks. Out of the blue, Don was given a very sudden and unexpected job offer a couple of weeks ago. It all sounded great... management position, double the salary, good benefits but the kicker was it was in L.A. What a change! We had been planning on buying a house in Tacoma at the end of the year and wondering how we were ever going to afford to have kids?! Well, the whole "double the salary" thing really caught our interest so we flew down there to check it out and all signs pointed to "Yes." Don worked out a great offer with his company, I found a job myself making quite a bit more than I'm making now in the same line of work, and after much driving around and stressful searching we found the house rental of our dreams that was willing to wait for our move in date 4 weeks out.

Since then we have been packing, running around to doctors appointments, making arrangements to relocate Don's film company to Cali, and visiting with lots of friends that we won't get to see for a long time after we move. There is so much to do and it has been a bit of a blessing being so busy that I don't have time to really let the anxiety of it all sink in. Ever since I went to my doctor and got a prescription for sleeping pills to help me sleep through the night again, things have been much better! For a while there I was so sleep deprived from the excitement and anxiety of it all that I wasn't even sure I was safe to be on the road driving. When I went to see my doctor, I couldn't even remember that the nurse had taken my blood pressure five minutes earlier! Things are much better now - amazing what a big difference a few solid hours of shut eye makes!

Again, in all it is a big exciting adventure. I'm sure I will be posting much in the days ahead so come back to check on me. Blessings to everyone.