I tend to get excited about things, over plan, and take on too much. Surely everyone does that, right? I hear there are some people out there who don’t, but I don’t believe it or understand it.

With that, I should mention I’m moving tomorrow. I’ve been super stressed out all week even though I’m about 90% packed – I spent the last month packing at nights when I was supposed to be studying for my most recent CPA exam (too many things at once?! NO WAY!). I’ve hired real movers for the first time and I feel like the more ready I am, the faster it will all go.

So I’m excited to say that I am moving into my grandparents house up on the mountain – a house in which I spent many happy years working in the garden, learning to bake and sew, and playing pretend for hours. My grandparents (Mamoo and Bapoo to me) loved me so deeply that it felt like a safe place for me forever, and I’m so lucky to be starting this chapter of my life by living there. Although parts have been renovated and upgraded, it’s still the house they bought in 1954 together and spent over 50 years working on and living in as a happy home. And it’s a huge part of my childhood.

There are many photos like this one – of me and my grandparents”working” together at the house.

Their patience and strong faith and passion for the things they loved guided me to be the person I am today. I know that people say grandparents have it easy, but I hope to use so much of what they taught me to be a good mother. We would go in the yard and pick up sticks and acorns for fun, go on adventures outside, snap peas and cook in the kitchen, and spend time together at a dinner table or watching a movie.

It’s a two bedroom house where I will have the master room (where my grandfather, a LOUD snorer, slept) and the nursery (where my grandmother and I would sleep when I spent the night and giggle together until we fell asleep). The bathrooms are still kitschy pink and blue and I love them. The outside of the house is a different shade but still the red I grew up with. I feel honored to be able to start and raise my family in a place that was so filled with love.

Also, I went and got my chicken pox vaccine, and made an appointment for July 2nd for the second round. August, here I come!!