God's Not Dead, and Neither Am I

Wow. Just WOW, guys. Technically, it's only been about two and a half years since I last wrote in this blog, but man, it feels more like two and a half decades. I can't believe my last post was spent writing about things like transitioning Imogen to one nap (Spoiler: We did it at 13.5 months and it went as smoothly as I could have hoped!) and the cost of gym memberships in Sitka. 

It's been a long time, and a LOT has happened since July of 2018. It's kind of funny, I was looking over one of my old posts and I had written about how it felt like July was the month where something exciting always happened. In July of 2016, we traveled to Iceland. July 2017, we had Imogen. July 2018, we took an amazing and memorable trip to Mt. Rainier. 

July 2019...we moved back to Washington. I guess we broke the streak last year, though, because nothing terribly exciting happened in July 2020 except Imogen turned 13 (ahem, THREE). Maybe we'll make up for it this year.

Have I told you yet that we moved back to Washington? HOO-BOY, that was an adventure and a half. I could write for days about that situation, but long story short, we left Alaska the weekend after Imogen's 2nd birthday, ended up not getting any of our belongings from the moving company delivered until A MONTH later, so the one week we were supposed to stay with my mom turned into four, we finally moved into our rental on August 8th, I went into labor on August 9th, and August 11th we had another baby. 

Oh yeah, did I mention we moved when I was 35 weeks pregnant with our son? 

So, now we live in Washington, we have 3 1/2 year old Imogen and 1 1/2 year old Kilian, Isaiah is working for the county, I'm killing it (lolz) doing my CEO of Domestic Affairs gig (aka SAHM), and aside from the now year-long, never-ending "pandemic" and some other hiccups here and there, life has been fairly peachy! 

Who knows how long I'll keep this up this time around, but now that the kids are slightly more independent and I have a little bit more free time (like, at naptime) I thought maybe I'd try my hand at blogging again. I feel like I'm reconnecting with an estranged friend - excited, but slightly apprehensive; a little giddy, but also wondering if this will be for the long haul or if we'll both make tentative plans to hang out but never actually find the time, and the next thing you know it's been another few years and we're basically strangers again. 

In the meantime, tell me what I should write about next! The move to Washington? Surprise, we have another kid now? All about life with two toddlers and how one of them is *sob* going to preschool this fall? Secrets of not losing your mind as a stay at home mom? None of the above?

If you're new here, welcome to probably one of the most boring, random blogs you'll ever read. It's nice to meet you. If you've been here before, welcome back to probably one of the most boring, random blogs you'll ever read. I missed you.