Hello From a New State

It's been a long time since I've posted here on my yoga blog (but my crafty blog: thecraftyyogi.blogspot.com has had somewhat regular posts!) and this post does not have a ton to do with yoga, but I hope that you'll read on.

Transition and change are the theme today (okay, and just letting you know what I've been up to). Back in October of 2013, my husband started a new job at a start up company.  Super exciting for him, but the office location was two hours and ten minutes from our house.  The good thing is that, being a computer guy, he could work most days from home.  The general plan was, if things were going well, we would move from Virginia (where we have lived in the same area for 20 years) to be nearer to said job located in Maryland.

Fast forward and, the house was readied for sale, sold, we put a contract on a house to be built, we found a place to rent in the neighborhood we're moving to, and packing commenced.

I said good bye to my yoga students, many that I had been teaching for 5-10 years!!

Lunch with my Trinity students.

A good- bye celebration with some of my elements students.

Wow! It was super hard to say good-bye, but you know, change is good.

In the midst of these good-byes and last classes and packing, our middle child, Cameron graduated from High School.  He'll be going to Florida (which seems very far from Maryland) for college.  It has been lots of work navigating the school web site and all the information to get him registered properly!

Moving was super hard. Clearing out a house of 14 years where three children grew up was a lot of work.  I definitely practiced some non attachment (a good yoga practice) and physically for all of us we were worn out.  Remember your yoga back stretches!  A little bit of yoga can go a long way.

Trip #1, ready to unload.

It took 4 days to move everything(we went with the 14 foot U-Haul truck) and clean out the house! With a crew of just us five, my Dad, my husband, and our two teenage sons and me, it was tough!  We'll be moving again in 6 months--but we've all convinced my husband that we should pay some movers!  Things were pretty tough the first week as some construction was being done on the rental and we couldn't put things into the basement rec room.  But that has mostly been worked out.  There are still lots of boxes as this is temporary and I don't want to un pack/repack everything!

This is our dog Lissa, hanging out with all the boxes!

This is my craft area, that is all set up for use.  Besides yoga, being crafty helps relax me!

Just a few weeks into the whole settling in part of moving we went on vacation to the Outer Banks in North Carolina.  Even though we are not as settled as I would like, the vacation was a very good thing!  My Dad went with us (my Mom was out of town, we sure wished she could have come with us).  It was his first visit to the Outer Banks, so we made sure to do most of the major tourist things.

The vacation was great!  I like to go for walks and do some yoga on the beach in the morning AND that's what I did!  There's not a lot that is better than that!

I've just started putting out my info and looking for places to teach yoga, so we'll see where that goes.  I took a yoga class at a studio in downtown Frederick and that felt wonderful.

So the sum up of this rambling post is that change is good--exciting, worrisome, stressful, and it will be alright!