Corvallis

 This week we moved to Corvallis. We are finally in our “for now” home, while we wait to find the right home to buy (and wait for our Saskatchewan house to sell).

We are hot, tired, trying to make our 2400 square feet of stuff fit into a 1600 square foot space, everything is a mess, and the amount of work left to do before life is semi-functional is overwhelming. Not to mention the wildfire smoke, which is intermittently trapping us indoors with no AC. 

But, we are glad to be here. Once all the hard stuff is done, I think we are going to be very happy. In fact, we have already had some pretty good times 😊

Coast day

 Today we visited the Oregon coast. It was Linden’s first time seeing the ocean, and Maren’s first time in five years. It started out cloudy, but turned out to be a beautiful sunny day, and everyone had a fabulous time. 

We are still in limbo, not at all settled, but it was absolutely the kind of day that makes me feel good about moving here. A reminder that it is worth it to have uprooted our family. 

Another reminder:

These lovely ladies are my two best friends from high school, who I have known since kindergarten and first grade. We stayed up late and had a sleepover last weekend, and it felt like coming home ❤️