Quantico, VA, we're coming for you!
Ever since I first visited almost two years ago, I knew I wanted to go back someday.
Rewind back a year, and we thought we might be doing this in October...of 2012. But, plans change (or are never made) and you just have to do what you have to do.
I have loved the fact that we got to spend more time close to the family after getting married. I have gotten a chance to get to know Keagan's family a little better, and we got to visit with my friends and family in Minnesota a few times as well. Living in our rental home, out on an acreage, has been wonderful. I love the quiet, I love the view, and I love how close it is to town, yet still secluded. We both have been blessed to have good jobs in this waiting period. I have no complaints.
Except one.
We've been waiting so long that I've gotten so comfortable in our current life and now I'm a little nervous to get ready and go. I guess that's not much of a complaint, just a worry. And as I try to remind myself over and over, "Do not worry about tomorrow...Matthew 6:34."
Now, it's action time.
We're going to Omaha/Lincoln this weekend for Keagan to meet up with his office and hopefully get some last-minute details. Then, we're going to have fun and relax in the city for my birthday weekend. Then, we're going to apartment search like crazy. We've got a month to find out where we'll be living. Yikes. that makes me nervous a bit. After that, it's packing (thankfully we don't have a lot of extra items lying around), tying up loose ends, changing addresses, etc.
Goodbye, Iowa!
Despite my worries, and trying to let the "planner" in me relax, I really am excited. This is what we have been waiting for. This is our goal. This is our future. This is our adventure.
Sometimes I feel like I'm in over my head. There's so much I don't know. But I've come to peace with the fact that that's okay. We're gonna make mistakes or miss some information, but we're also going to learn from it. I've done my research, I have people who can help me out, and it's all going to be awesome. Seriously, I feel it.
These are the attitudes/mottos that I have pre-adopted (if that's a thing).
-Attitudes are not circumstantial.
-Things aren't always going to be easy, but you have the ability to figure it out.
-Find peace in the Lord first and foremost- not in accomplishments and comparisons.
PLEASE keep in contact with us. And if you want a little vacation...come visit D.C. We'll show you around! We'll be there about six months and then it's most likely on to Pensacola. So...come to Florida too. :)
We're excited.
-Hannah
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