On my mind today...

• We moved here so that I could take a walk at 5:00 on a Monday evening, down a snowy trail, like it's the most natural thing in the world.
• We moved here so that I could feel snowflakes melt on my heated cheeks as I pulled a 25+ pound boy in a sled behind me.
• We moved here so that I could breath in deeply the good and breath out forcefully the icky.
• We moved here to start fresh.

• We moved here so that my back could go out and my eyes could truly see what I was becoming and where I was headed.
• We moved here for changes inside and out.
• We moved here for bike trails and walking trails and sledding trails.
• We moved here for summer swimming lakes and winter ice fishing lakes.
• We moved here 31 pounds ago and we are not looking back.

• We moved here so that I could stop and push Finn down a hill for the first time in his bitty boy life.
• We moved here so that I could hear him squeal with delight.
• We moved here so that I could run up and down that hill no less than half a dozen times just to hear his laughter echo on the quiet evening.
• We moved here so that I could have the time: time to walk down the trail, time to talk to my son as we slipped along, time hear those squeals.  And time to appreciate it all.