From Idaho to SoDak!

So mid-August Husband Man was finally offered a job! They only offered it to him a week before the starting date, though...!! I admit that I panicked, and so instead of trying to pack all of our stuff up in four days, we just packed to be away from home for a couple of weeks. I stayed with my parents while Husband Man started work and found an apartment for us to live in. At the end of August, we borrowed a truck and horse trailer from my dad, and in a whirlwind weekend we drove to Idaho, spent a day packing and cleaning our entire apartment, and drove back to SoDak. (Yes, we did it all in three days. It was a LONG weekend. AND we got our entire deposit back! Minus the cost of carpet cleaning, but whatever.)

Once everything was all packed I took a moment to take a picture of our apartment, and then it hit me. We're moving on. We were married during a semester of college, and because we did three semesters a year we did nothing but school and classes for the first two and a half years of our marriage. We spent two of those years in the same apartment, in the same ward, making friends and memories. Gummy Bear joined our family only a couple months before the move. And suddenly, almost without warning, it's all packed in a horse trailer and we're going somewhere else. It was tough. Even writing this, over a month since the move, I still remember those feelings of anxiety, stress, of being sad that we're moving and leaving everything I'd worked so hard to have for those two, almost three years.

And then I turned around and took a deep breath, hugged my husband, and got in the car and drove away. I'm not too dumb to know that there isn't more for us outside of Idaho, more opportunities and people to meet and places to see.

We were so blessed, SO blessed, to find an apartment with almost the same amount of space as our old one, with a washer and dryer (YESSSSSSS), for only about $200 more than we were paying before, utilities all included. The people in our church branch have been so warm and welcoming (reminding me how much small-town mentality is awesome), and the members are still asking how we're doing and if there's anything they can do for us. Husband Man likes his job, he's just finished training and he is waiting to be placed in a project. We're literally three hours from every city in SoDak, and shopping is scarce here, and it's difficult to visit our families or the temple without planning a whole weekend, but I'm still so happy that we're closer to family and have more opportunities throughout the year to see them.

So close to rolling over!