Settled

This September will mark 5 years of living here in WA. Almost 5 years ago Zach and I left our familes and home towns and moved. Wow. 

And my heart feels settled. I think we can almost 100% contribute that to having a baby. There's something about having a baby that's made me contemplate not just what I want and what is best ME anymore....but my family as a whole. And the more I contemplate, the more I realize that where we are is a good place to have a baby, raise her, have a couple more babies, and be a family. 

Zach will continue to work for a great company where he loves his job. I will continue to be able to stay home (most of the time if not full time) for as long as I want. We are a part of a fantastic, thriving, healthy church. I have a group of girls that I love and cherish and am close to and get together with on a weekly basis. Zach has a group of guys that he really can call friends that he gets together with on a weekly basis. We have a group of young married couples who are like our family. 1/2 of them happen to be like us: no family here.  So, we gather together and do holidays just about every year and just do life together in general.

I'm so grateful for all of this. We have a rich blessed life.

And my heart feels settled...

Because my joy is to be where God wants us to be. And be in a healthy, happy, good place for my babies to grow up in. For now, this is where that is. Maybe it will change. Maybe it won't. That quesiton used to occupy my mind on a daily basis--but it doesn't anymore. Because we have all that we could ask for.

Minus the sun and warm weather. But thats why there's happy lights and spontaenous vacations come in :)