Whoa.
What a week. It started out in Indiana. I just cant even begin to express how wonderful it was to see all of my dear lovely friends. Especially Maize!!!! I felt like I was literally holding a gift from God when she came and sat on my lap. Amanda and Maize. Nothing will ever break that bond. It also brought me so much happiness so see my beautiful young women. Incredible young adults now. (I forgot to snap a picture with the Melton’s!) My heart. Indiana. Always. The interview was great. But after the interview it all sunk in deep again. We are doing this again. Again and again and again. We went to our favorite Burger place, Bru Burger, and then after that drove around Indianapolis and ended up getting ice cream (ironically at Bubs Burger). Landon was just talking about all the possibilities and where we will end up and why Indiana would be wonderful and then I blurted out “I CANT DO THIS AGAIN.” And started crying. This is hard. Moving after moving after moving. After a good 30 seconds of crying I also said “And I hate my ice cream that I ordered.” It meant so much to me when Landon stood up, tossed my ice cream in the trash, and then went and got me a cookies and cream ice cream cone. In a moment when I felt like I had zero control in my life, it was good to remind myself that I do have control. Even if that control means throwing away ice cream I don’t like and replacing it with ice cream I do like. A small moment with big impacts.
Then I flew home. Well to my Arizona home. Got in at 1:00am. (4:00am IN time). I had one more day in happy sunny AZ. I cried with Rachel. Okay okay, composed sobbed. Life feels overwhelming sometimes. She needs to become a therapist or life coach stat. Then seeing Mahyo again. She’s such an inspiration to me. And of course ending the night with Mama and Papa Woolf. They were wonderful incredible grandparents the whole 10 days but especially those two days we were gone.
Then at 7:23am after a solid 8 hours of sleep, me and the boys drove home to Utah. We stopped and saw the Naylor’s in Vegas. I’m inspired by their commitment to life. It was good to see them. I wanted to stop and see Kort! But Luke was sleeping during St George time. And anyone that travels with kids knows how especially precious and important it is take advantage of baby sleeping time. But I did get to stop and see Maddie. Maddie. She brought us Cafe Rio and had everything set up and we met at a park right off the freeway and it was just another moment where it was like “she knows. She knows and understands my life because she’s living the exact same life.” What a comfort Maddie is to me, daily! Maddie. Fresno. Maddie. We got home at 11:30. Phew! I fell asleep at 1:00am
On Thursday I just felt entirely overwhelmed with all I had to do. Unpack all of our bags, rush the boys to an emergency doctors appointment up at the U hospital without a car. I told Landon he should take the van because we wouldn’t need it. Of course we did. And of course Luke and Ty have perianal strep which explains why Ty hasn’t been himself the last month. Poor boy. But grateful to the MOST INCREDIBLE PEDIATRICIAN for personally calling and saying “no you come in now, I’ll fit you in, this has been long enough.” Seriously, my gratitude for her is not measurable. With the help of our babysitter in the afternoon AND KONMARI, I managed to get all unpacked and repacked, clean the house, cook dinner and go on a quick date with Landon before 8pm.
And then. I WENT TO NEW YORK!!!!!!!!!!!! New York is so cool, but going to New York to become a Certified KonMari Consultant is so. much. cooler. If you’ve known me at all in the last 4 years, you’d know my passion for this and what a dream it was to go to this conference. I have soooo much gratitude for my parents, Nate and Sarah, and Landon for making this all possible. My parents and N&S gifted this to me for Christmas. And then Landon watched the boys all weekend. It was an EPIC weekend and I can’t wait to start my journey as a consultant. I met the most wonderful people. I explored New York by myself. I took the first step on becoming a consultant. Aaaammmmmaazzzing weekend.
You guys, it was such a joyful week. So. Much. Joy. And I feel like I have Marie Kondo, who I met and hugged.... squeezed.... to thank for just soooo much.
The only thing I missed this week was taking the sacrament. I miss it. I missed it last week too because of Indiana traveling and I’ll miss it next week because of GENERAL CONFERENCE. Which oh man, March madness weekend, Konmari weekend, General Conference weekend... back to back to back. You guys. I couldn’t have planned it better myself!!!!! But seriously, I'll be very very ready for Sacrament meeting in two weeks!! God has given me so many things to be grateful for as you can see.
Happy April everyone. For sure the best March of my life, just sayin.
All just one more thing, I love you Landon💛
