Oh the places you'll go

The year Nathan and I got married was a year of many changes.  2005.  We started the year as unmarried students.  We ended the year as married adults living in a new town, new province, both with new jobs, new church, new friends, new car, new EVERYTHING.  Neither of us had ever lived on our own before.  At one point in the year we looked at one of those "stress charts" that rates different changes in life with a point value so that you can calculate how "stressful" your life has been.  We joked that the only thing that would have made our life more stressful that year would be if we had an unplanned pregnancy.

It's amazing how much can change in just one short year.

2009 hasn't had as many changes as 2005, but it's been close.  We started this year not sure where in the world (literally) we would be this Christmas.  Last Christmas, we were still "technically" employed at the church.  We weren't sure if we would be working at the church after our leave or if we would stay put but continue with our jobs/school or if we would be moving away.  We decided mid-January that a move was the right thing, so we formally resigned from the church and put our house on the market.  Within the next 9 months, we quit our jobs, applied and were accepted into seminary, moved our stuff into storage in Saskatchewan, found a temporary home for our Lennox, moved to California, and sold our house.  And now, almost one year since making that decision to move, we are settled in our apartment, have one semester finished, and are feeling at home again.  Wow.  It's so interesting to look back sometimes, isn't it?  It's amazing how quickly things some things can change.

Now the interesting thing will be finding out where we will be at this time next year and, even more exciting than that, the year after that once we are finished school!  Could be anywhere!