Officially in COLORADO 🏔️
Last week we moved across the country. This week, we learned how dependent we are upon internet now that we live in a place with legit zero cell service.
Life stuff (that you just can’t make up)
I want to share all my feels about this big move we’ve just made. I still cannot believe it’s real - instead of waking up to the gorgeous Gulf of Mexico, we are now waking up to the incredible Pike’s Peak. Beauty is everywhere, friends.
When we moved back to Destin in 2017, we did not plan to be there for more than one year. I had a job lined up in DC and we were going... until we weren't. The change of heart happened for a lot of reasons: a new really wonderful boss, a condo purchase on the Gulf, family being nearby, and (in hindsight) being afraid to take the leap.
Fast forward a bit and 2020 happened. With everything being shut down, many of the condo owners around us came to stay in their own condos to quarantine at the beach. In a time that was isolating for so many, we found our community in our neighbors and Destin really began to feel like home. Oh and PS, I was preggo and had our kiddo that September.
The next year was a whirlwind - we had a new puppy (yep, I fully blame pregnancy hormones), a new baby, zero childcare, and stressful jobs. It was too much, and we started to make some serious changes. By the end of 2022, Jared and I had both settled into new jobs with good coworkers, our kiddo was rocking daycare, I had started therapy, we found a church, and we had even more people to do life with. Destin had become a place we were no longer trying to leave.
And then this unicorn opportunity came to fruition. It had been six years since grad school and I could finally circle back to one of the reasons I went to grad school in the first place - to possibly teach one day. And here we are, in Colorado as of this past Saturday to get ready for my one-year tenure to try this teaching thing out. Life is so wild. We went from desperately wanting to get out of Destin, to kind of loving Destin, to getting an opportunity elsewhere. Sometimes where you don't want to be is kind of where you should be... for a while at least. And while I'm sad to have left Destin for so many reasons, I'm kind of glad to be sad because it means that we left a place that was worth living in.
I can't close this out without saying that in our time in Destin, I met Tiffany who helped me to set this Coffee& thing into motion - which is the reason that I have the platform to share this with you today. While her current season of life isn't conducive to remaining a co-owner of Coffee&, she is a key reason that it exists and I am beyond thankful for her 🥰 I'm so looking forward to continuing to overshare life with you in hopes to encourage you to overshare yours so that we all feel a little less alone in this life we are all living. Let’s do this, friends 💖
