Drumroll Please, Life Update Incoming
Hello from London!
And no, we’re not on vacation. We moved!
Oh what a crazy, exciting time it has been. We've been met with a lot of surprised reactions, interesting questions, and "I wish we could do that". The most common question we get: Oh, are you going for a job for a year or two and then coming back?
Nope, we're here as long as we want to be. Might be a year. Might be a lifetime. We've put no timeline or pressure on it.
Nick had the opportunity to join a new team at his company which happens to be based in London, permanently, no timeline to return to the US unless we choose to. The urge for change has been in my heart for awhile now, and when this opportunity came up we knew we needed to take it.
Was it an easy decision? NO, but also yes. Honestly, I’ve mostly been relying on my trust in God to guide us through this. Has that been easy? NO, but also yes. I’ve learned to not question as much, to listen more and control less, to see the hard times as lessons to help us grow. Is THAT easy? HECK NO.
We’ve known we were going to move since last October, so we had many months to prepare. Boy, did we use every second of that time. There were months in there where it seemed like nothing was moving forward and then months where it was a full on sprint. There were months filled with happy excitement, and months filled with grief and worry.
Some things worked out better than expected like the extremely quick turn around with receiving our Visas. Other things became lessons in surrender like thinking last November that our house would sell within days, and in fact, our wonderful home is still sitting in Colorado as we work through the process of selling it from across the ocean. We watched similar houses down the street sell in the blink of an eye while ours was only getting crickets for months and months. (I know now from a spiritual perspective that I wasn’t ready to let go of it yet, so it held onto me until I could make peace with everything. And I do truly believe that it is waiting on the perfect buyer who is on their own timeline which didn’t fully align with ours.)
{UPDATE August 29, 2025: We finally closed on our house!}
We left Colorado with nothing but love. We said good-bye to our home, our families, our friends, our neighborhood, our school, our church, all of it. I read once, early on, before we even knew we were moving that you have to have peace in a place before you can move on from it, otherwise you will spend your life in a perpetual state of running away, searching for more. At first, I think I was using this opportunity as running away - from my health issues, from the trauma it caused me, from the daily reminders of it, from the things I still couldn't do. But then I realized that wasn't about the place, that was about me. By the time we left, I had the peace I wanted. I knew in my heart that my life would still be amazing if we stayed, and deciding to leave wasn't a reflection of any negativity I still held onto. Either way is fine, and that neutrality felt like a calm sea.
I’m going to leave it at that for today, but I will dive into deeper details about the move in upcoming posts. For now, we are here in a cute little part of London in our terraced house, trying to find our footing while on the continual search for routine, friends, and furniture.
We made a huge life change, so the waves of emotions hit us hard sometimes, but so do the beautiful moments like laughing at the kitchen table because Nick made hamburgers that looked like hockey pucks for dinner or Clark thinking the turf in the yard is a giant rug.
I am a strong believer that home is where our family is. And here we are, in London.
