Thanks to everyone who sent kind words and encouragement our way regarding our possible upcoming move.

I feel like I should explain my last post a bit...it's not that we're scared to move. In fact, we've lived in four states and six cities over the last 20 years, so we've done a fair bit of moving around. No, the hard part comes in when we start to think about the things we're giving up here. The friends we've met, the places we've imagined taking our daughter to, and the memories we've built here are hard to walk away from.

Neither of us consider the city where we grew up "home". Home to us is where you put down your roots on purpose. Even though we've tried our hardest not to settle too far down into this backdrop of cactus and urban sprawl, when faced with the decision to leave it seems a little bit more like "home" than either D or I had thought it would. We'll miss this place if we go.