Somewhere new....

As much as I don't like change, I love change.  I'm a creature of habit with somethings in my life but with other things I can change daily.  We moved 80 miles away from my hometown.  It doesn't seem far, but to me it's really far!  I'm still friends with all of my jr. high/high school friends and if I may say....I have a ton of friends that I have gotten close with outside of high school.    I would have to say, I'm a pretty social person.  In my single life, I had plans all the time and in my married life with kids, I still have plans just different ones.  Anyway, I grew up in the Metropolitan area of my old city and moved to what seems like a really small city.  My newer city has a somewhat small town mentality.  There is a large military influence and a large religious influence.

I have only lived in this city for 3 years and the entire time I was thinking it would be temporary and that we would be able to move back to the big city within 5 years.  Well, plans have changed.  We have decided to stay in our new small city.  It feels a little safer, there isn't traffic, the cost of living is drastically lower (we were able to buy a house double the size that we would have been able to buy in the big city).  I have made a lot of Mommy friends, and a few really great friends.  Most of my new friends are in my same shoes, they are living a similar life, and most importantly they understand.  They are also new to this city.  As much as I miss my old city, it's just a hop, skip and a jump away.  I miss seeing my best friends more often but one thing I have to remember is they are just a phone call away.