🎶 Sky high in Colorado 🎶

Hey friends! So, I keep telling myself I’m going to sit down at my computer and get back to regular blogging, because I do love it! However, I almost never feel motivated to pull out my computer unless it’s for work (coaching) or for homework (Masters in American History), so I just haven’t. But, VOILA! The app for squarespace makes life easy and hopefully you won’t mind when I post random paragraphs that just come to me throughout the day!  

​So, as many know we’ve moved to Colorado! We’ve been in the state for just about three weeks and in our home for about a week. We had a very obnoxious time with our movers, but that’s a story for another time. They wound up squeaking in under the deadline and man, the anxiety got to me! But, all is well. The move to Colorado was so frustrating and annoying to make happen that I had decided it was so it would be that much sweeter when we settled and let me tell ya, I’m so happy here! ​

​Why did we move? We wanted to! Vic was ready for something new after his time spent with a Fortune 250 company and was ready for a fresh start and something a bit different, but similar, so he’s moved from ADP to Vertafore, still doing crazy things with Excel and numbers that I don’t understand. He’s happy, so I’m happy! We’ve always been “rip the bandaid off” people. We take risks for the reward and ya know what? After nearly 8 years of marriage (our anniversary is next week!), it always winds up being great for us. I like that we jump in head first, what an adventure this life always turns out to be! 

The kids and I are settling in awesomely. We submitted our homeschool paperwork last week, and I’ve been using a new tracking system to log our days and activities via an app. Colorado laws are a bit different, but not in a way that makes our routine or our plans any more difficult to execute! In fact, kids don’t have to start school here until 7, and since Ryker isn’t even six and we’ve been using first grade materials, we’ve taken some time to focus on just the basics during the move. Lots of reading, lots of handwriting, lots of play. Now that we’ve settled in to the house we are back to our morning sit downs. We also have a new classmate, Cora! She has started asking for homework and while hers is obviously play based, we’ve started working on her learning more.  

Last night, I heard Ryker reading Cora “The Biggest Kiss” in her room and they’re just so dang sweet. Every time he’d sound out a word she’d go “wow, good job, Brother!”  

I see the bus pick up and drop off the neighborhood kids each morning and for whatever reason I get this pang of guilt. Should he be with them? Then I remember that if he was in school, I would drop him off because I’m home and it’s frickin’ freezing outside on that corner and so he would be missing out on that experience anyways, haha. I ask him a few times a week if this is what he wants and he always says yes. I know he doesn’t really know better, but as long as we are all checking in with each other and all happy, we’ll keep moving forward! 

We already have memberships to the Downtown Aquarium and the Children’s Museum and we love both! We are basically 20 minutes away from everything, and so we’ve been trying to investigate the area as much as possible. Oh! My new favorite thing? The Smaland Forest in IKEA! It’s a bit of a drive for us, but I get 1.5 hours of time to wander alone while the kids play and they love it. We may go later this week to return something and just sit and work in the cafe while they play, haha! 

Ok, this post kicks off my return. If you made it this far, thanks for reading! Vic will be up soon and I have a lunch to pack. Talk to you soon!