• A family carrying boxes and household items while moving into our new place on a bright moving day.
    Life Transitions

    Moving Into Our New Place

    Today is my birthday. I am 39 years old, and we are officially moving into our new place. I do not think I could have asked for a better birthday gift than this. Stability. Space. A door that closes and belongs to us. Yesterday went better than I ever expected. The Facebook Marketplace Miracle We met the woman from Facebook Marketplace, and she was real. Not a scam. Not a weird situation. Just a genuinely kind human being. She is close to our age and has dual citizenship in the United States and Europe. She is moving back to Rome, Italy. Most of her friends are there, and even though…

  • A family packing boxes in a dim basement while getting ready to move to a new home.
    Life Transitions

    Getting Ready to Move

    Today feels different. There is an energy in the air because we are officially getting ready to move, and it no longer feels like a distant possibility. It feels real. Tomorrow is move-in day. After months in this basement and all the tension that has come with it, the idea of leaving feels like breathing again. I did not realize exactly how heavy this space has felt until we started packing it up. Meeting the Facebook Marketplace Lady Part of getting ready to move today includes meeting the woman from Facebook Marketplace who offered to donate a bunch of items to us. We are going to inventory everything and figure…