Things are changing, all in a flash and I have had a loss of words to write about them. In a little over a week I will look around and instead of cacti and warm sun that is working hard on getting too hot already, I will see a lot of white stuff and be wearing gloves and hats. Big pines and bare aspens will be reaching for the sky, this will be the backdrop to my new life. Instead of the green and gray walls of my current office I am going to see something different, what that will be I am not entirely sure, but it will involve creativity, children in the background (not mine), long hours, challenge, excitement and hope. I am taking a new job, and I am moving from the low desert heat to the high desert where snow still blankets the ground. I am excited and fearful all the same time. Emotions are tumbling out of me during right now. Things are tenuous, my husbands health is not good, it is a financial risk but it is also pursuing a dream. This move, this change — is HUGE.

Like any adventure that you are about to set out on I am bursting with hope of starting a new. Like the New Year, I am full of resolutions, goals and dreams, grasping this opportunity to take life by the horns and own it, like I never have before. This is it, this is that once in a lifetime opportunity that not everyone gets, it is knocking and while I am terrified I am saying yes, yes to everything this means for me and my husband right NOW.

**I have never lived in snow, or an appartment.**