Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes

Wow.

It's crazy that it's been almost one full year since I've posted anything on this blog. How time flies by. It's crazy to think back on where life has taken me and my family and what's been experienced in such a short time.

First Wedding Anniversary Celebration
First House Buying
First Mortgage Payment
First Bathroom Renovation
First Ascent of the Inca Trail and First Sighting of Machu Pichu
First Mt Adams Ascent
First Send of 5.11a (booya! thank god for finger cracks)
First Big Fight with the Husband that Took a FEW TOO MANY Days to Resolve (but resolve we did!)
First Success of Cooking Chicken and Dumplings
First Time Painting a Ceiling (its so much harder than you think!)
First Hawaii Trip with the VanVoorhis Clan

The list goes on and on. Leading to...

The First Layoff.

Yep, I was officially laid off after six years of designing, marketing, planning and executing. Talk about changes. BIG changes. Life altering changes. And you know what? Life is good.

Oh don't get me wrong. It's definitely scary. There will always be those "what-if-no-one-wants-me" thoughts or "will-I-ever-get-hired-again?" feelings that I just have to push away and try to ignore.

But even more than that, I'm on a journey... a sabbatical of sorts. It's time to reconnect the pieces and rediscover what lies beneath an exterior that's become hardened by survival mode. It's time to rediscover who I am and who I want to become.

And so, I'm back to writing and learning and contemplating. All I know is that I'm going to keep showing up in the hopes that I will find HIM faithful on the other side. So far, so good.

Here's to changes.