We've got big news around here...
EEEEEEEEK!!
We are saying goodbye to Northern California and hello to North Carolina!
I'm so excited anxious nervous stressed happy hopeful grateful.
OK, I'm a mess. But I am pulling it together along with James, who, as you might imagine, is not a mess, and we are hiring movers and making phone calls and doing paperwork and getting ready to pack our worldly possessions into boxes in a moving truck! Whew! It's a lot, and it's happening fast. We will be saying our California goodbyes before Thanksgiving.
James and I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2007 just weeks after our wedding.
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| 2007, just after we arrived in CA |
Over the past 8 years, we've enjoyed California's beautiful mountains, beaches, and redwood forests. We've been spoiled by San Francisco's amazing restaurants, museums, and festivals. We've toasted many celebrations with California wines and brews (wine tasting in Napa might just be my favorite thing to do in NorCal!). We've been here to cheer on our San Francisco Giants to three World Series wins. We have made friendships that we hope will last a lifetime. We have loved being close to our west coast cousins, aunts, uncles, and of course, our Lola Coring. We arrived as newlyweds, and we will leave as a family of four. California will always be a special place for us, and an important part of our family's story.
Though there will be a lot of things that we'll miss about our home here by the bay, we are looking forward to new adventures awaiting us in North Carolina.
James is excited about his new position at Duke University - back to the field of biomechanics and orthopedics which was the focus of his doctorate research at Stanford. North Carolina is beautiful and the Raleigh-Durham area where we'll be is really charming. We are looking forward to being closer to our parents and the rest of our east coast family, and we even have a few friends in Raleigh and Durham.
We have been wanting to re-locate to the east coast for the past year or so, and we are thrilled and thankful to finally have the opportunity. It's bittersweet, of course, but we really believe that this move is the right thing for our family right now.
So, cheers farewell to California! And cheers hello to North Carolina!
Send us prayers, wish us luck!!
Oh, I'll be sending lots of prayers (and shedding some tears), wishing you luck - and bringing you boxes! But I still can't believe this is really happening.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'll be sending lots of prayers (and shedding some tears), wishing you luck - and bringing you boxes! But I still can't believe this is really happening.
ReplyDeleteExciting times! Deep breath, Diana!
ReplyDeletewe're still going to California at least once a year!
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