From the Sisters to the Sandias

(Those are the mountains in Oregon to the mountains in NM)

It’s kind of hard to believe we’ve been here almost a week. It kind of just feels like a vacation since I haven’t been working.

We’ve been trying to explore! Tuesday we gave ourselves the day to settle and lounge around. We went up into the woods on Wednesday and camped at a dispersed site till Thursday. Friday and Saturday, Jeremy worked on job stuff all day we went to dinner with our friend that also just moved here. Saturday I scoped out the farmers market and a couple gyms.

It’s all going well,  it’s just hard to believe we’re having to stay all over again and back in a weird limbo of not knowing what’s happening long term.

We realized that wherever we are,  as long a we have some connection with Nature,  we will be ok.  And the nature here did not disappoint! We know that we’re going to be just as supported here as we were in Oregon.

I feel that (hopefully) the hardest, most physical part of moving is behind us,  but the mental and emotional aspects are ahead, and likely even harder. 

I’m trying to use it as a reason to recalibrate and re-instill some positive habits.  The last few weeks have certainly not been healthy, in terms of eating alot,  drinking more than normal, and just not doing the things that I know my body needs.  Now I’m paying for it, but I also know I will get myself into a routine fairly quickly as work starts back up tomorrow! I also am going to get free passes to a couple of the gyms to give that another shot. After 5 years of working out at home, I think I’m ready to give it a try.

There is a feeling of urgency, to figure out what’s next, for both of us. I want to find doctors,  and be able to officially change our address. And yet at the same time, the journey is where all the growth happens.  We were guided here to learn something, and I’m trying to be open to all of it so we’re allowing all options to exist and taking steps to investigate things that we wouldn’t have considered before. I know Jeremy is putting a lot of pressure on himself, and at the same time, I’m trying to ensure that it is motivating-pressure and not just-find-something-stress-pressure. I’m trying to keep a gut check on how each of these paths feel for the future and are they aligned to what we want our lives to look like.  We shall see, I know we are fine for now and I’m just trying to enjoy the discomfort of more not-knowing.

Mckenzie is slowly adjusting as well. Poor thing has been hit hard by all the time in the truck,  the heat, the fireworks,  and the general new-ness of it all. She has been very clingy, to both of us and yet extremely attached to Jeremy. We are trying out a couple new schools for her to continue socializing with other pups. I think she needs a routine as well!

The butterflies and hummingbirds here have been a welcome sight! There are lots of them and actually,  a hummingbird has a nest on our front porch!

I was sitting out there reading yesterday and she kept flying up to me and hovering in the air just staring at Zie and I. I finally realized there was a tiny nest on top of a decoration out there,  so I moved inside so i wouldn’t scare her off! That is a pic of her sitting and then hovering at us. And then a gorgeous butterfly and fun flower!

And we saw rainbow!

Oh and, I realized that our place actually has a donkey! Not exactly what we’re looking for, and yet hopefully a good sign that we’ve made a step in the right direction!

One day at a time.