it's been a year

Wow! How quickly the time has gone by. Lots has happened in the last year:

We moved 2,000 miles away;
I finished school;
D started high school;
We went through a hurricane (that was pretty exciting);
We downsized.

All good things (okay, maybe not the hurricane) that have all turned out to be good things. Downsizing turned out even better than we expected. Smaller house (although not *small* by any means), smaller yard, more convenient lifestyle, no snow all adds up to more time to do things like ride bikes, hang out with friends, and slows down the pace of our lives just a little bit. It's all good.