Three years ago this weekend, we buckled all our kids into the car, pulled out of our Colorado driveway for the last time, and headed 19 hours across the country to Tennessee. We had no family waiting for us and no backup plan if things didn’t work out. Just this feeling we couldn’t shake – that staying put wasn’t the answer anymore – and the quiet hope that we weren’t making the biggest mistake of our lives. The Chaos Before the Leap From the outside, it probably looked like we had it all under control. But the truth is, things…

The last time I wrote here was July of 2023. I shared with you how I was overcoming the battle of going from full time stay at home mom to juggling a part time work from home job as a writer. At the very end of that blog, under a section titled, “How to Balance Working from Home and Parenthood,” I told the whole world to prioritize me time. As I was reading that, it’s ironic that I find myself here. That’s nearly two years of silence on a blog that once felt like my favorite place on the internet.…