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Happy girl found some autumn. 🍁 🌾🍂 I’v

Happy girl found some autumn. 🍁 🌾🍂

I’ve been thinking about how easy it is to hide. (And correspondingly how easy it is, too, to judge people based on what little we see of their lives.) My last post was meant to be a sort of “but that was a month ago! I’m way over all that now!” but I don’t think it’s all that easy. We all carry so much of what seem like opposing things, but are really not. Happiness and sadness. Grief and joy. Old dreams and new hopes. Ancient roots and green new baby leaves.

I meant to hide, and I did. I hid from my husband and from all my friends just how much I was struggling, and you know what happened? It didn’t just go away. It didn’t make me look any better. All hiding did was deprive me of opportunities for connection, love, and friendship, and then of course I felt lonely and isolated!

There’s no great point to this post. No “but now I’m all better!” lesson in which I am able to impart my great wisdom. Just a hey, I’m human, and so are we all. In the words of the late great Oscar Wilde, we are all in the gutter.

But some of us are looking at the stars.

(and I’m still free; you can’t take the sky from me)

Here’s a post I wrote a month ago but was too em

I had to schedule a VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL with a l

I had to schedule a VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL with a librarian to get a library card, if you can believe it! So I promptly put a dozen books on hold to make certain I was getting my anxiety’s worth out of it. 😆 These arrived just in time for the library’s first, very limited, pop-up opening (and thus blessedly relieving me from having to call to set up a pickup time) and now my only anxiety is trying to decide which one to read first! 📚

(How obvious is it that I like historical mysteries? I am ALL about the comfort reads lately. 🙈)
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#books #allthingslovely #historicalmysteries #whatimreading #amreading #libraries #booksbooksbooks #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookshelf #booklover #instashelf #stacked #tashaalexander #darciewilde #abigailwilson #myweekisbooked

Visited the botanical gardens today and it was a l

Visited the botanical gardens today and it was a lot of fun (who knew there were so many types of cacti?) but I must admit to feeling homesick for Colorado mountains all the same.

Note to self: put down water bottle and mask befor

Note to self: put down water bottle and mask before taking photos. And maybe take actual shoes if you plan on hiking. Have you heard of cactuses? 🙃

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Visiting my favorite places around town hits a lit

Visiting my favorite places around town hits a little differently these days. Every one of these last moments feels exquisitely special. I’ve lived so much life here in Colorado, and loved and lost and learned and grown and changed and cried and laughed. It feels like the end of an era and it doesn’t even feel too dramatic to say that! 😅
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(Also now I’m really homesick for Hawaii but I’m literally always homesick for Hawaii.)
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#lifeisbeautiful #hawaiianfood #windsor #changes #leavinghome

Happy Birthday to my handsome husband DJ (left).

Happy Birthday to my handsome husband DJ (left).

It’s official at last: We are moving to Arizona!

It’s official at last: We are moving to Arizona! For a very long time we were thinking about it, but nothing was happening, and then, very suddenly, everything started happening all at once!

🌵☀️🌵☀️🌵☀️🌵☀️🌵☀️🌵☀️🌵

You’ve probably heard the saying that “God can’t steer a parked car.” Less than six months ago, we were absolutely positive we were moving to Florida, and emotionally and figuratively we were starting that car and driving towards the land of the Mouse House! But apparently that’s not where we were meant to be, so Forever-summer-Arizona it shall be, and you won’t hear a single peep of complaint out of me. 😉 (unless it reaches the 120°s, perhaps...)

We are excited to announce that DJ will be working with Hayden Outdoors Real Estate, opening up an Arizona brokerage specializing in the best farm, ranch, and sporting properties that AZ has to offer!

I’m SO stoked for this new adventure! Who’s coming to visit??
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#newadventuresawait #unprecedentedtimes #arizona #sunshinegirl #desertvibes #phoenix #phoenixarizona #haydenoutdoors #thejourney #newbeginnings #startagain #foreverchasinglight #foreverchasingsunsets

You make me stupid happy. . It’s so funny to loo

You make me stupid happy.
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It’s so funny to look back and remember what we had both expected marriage would look like. I thought marriage meant he’d stop loving me eventually — I gave him six months.
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He thought marriage meant I’d stop being kind to him — he didn’t have a timeframe, but expected it would happen fairly quickly. (With these expectations of what marriage would be, it’s kind of a wonder we ever got married at all. 🤯)
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I’m delighted to report neither of those things ended up being true. Not sure what odds we’re beating, but we’re still ridiculously happy, three years in. He still loves me, and I’m still nice to him!
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(I mean, I’m mostly still nice.)
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credit for the gorgeous photos goes to @sarahporterphotos, and I also have to give a special credit to @camelotprincess87 who reminded me yesterday that my anniversary was today, probably saving my marriage in the process. 😆

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