Resolutions

My new year resolution (which I normally don't make at the new year but at Easter, instead) was that once Thad began preschool, I would write every day. I am trying to get into the habit of just writing without self-editing as I go along. I believe I have a call to write, but I am incredibly, horrifically, delightfully ambivalent about it.

So in the interest of dancing with my ambivalence: I write now. (Right now.)

So, we are in Plano, Texas! It is remarkably similar and vastly different to Seattle: the weather has been two ice storms, temps in the 20s and 30s, depressingly overcast, and R-A-I-N-Y.

I. Am. Not. Happy.

Differences? People are genuinely friendly and it goes beyond the first meeting. Our first few weeks in our new home our neighbors brought cookies and wrote down their names and numbers for us. The couple from whom I bought my new (to me) Honda CR-V met us at the airport with a fully-inspected and detailed vehicle, all the paperwork filled out and ready for signature, and a bag of Christmas goodies to welcome us to Texas!

My new baby . . . Isn't CallieRose-Vivienne beautiful?

This in contrast to my nightmare experience of selling my Honda in Seattle, which I will write about today or tomorrow and is guaranteed to put you into the aghast category!

We flew to Plano on 12/13 and spent nine days in an extended-stay hotel. We moved into our new (leased) home on 12/22 (the movers were early!!!). We are rattling around our large home--Thad loves riding his trike through the family room, the living room, the dining room, and the kitchen!

The three weeks between Pete's accepting the position in Plano and our actual move were fast, stressful, sad, and bittersweet.

We said goodbye to dear friends who had lived our stories with us, both as single people and then as DINKs and then as SIOKs!

Woodlawn Ave Friends

Pete & the Domainiacs

My BookBabes

I said goodbye to the best educational/transformational process I have ever had.


Generall, we laughed, we cried . . . it moved us, Bob. (VeggieTales)

We are finding our way in Plano. God has surely met us here. One of my classmates is here!

(Hi Kendall!)

We had friends gifted to us! Jachin and Amanda are sharing their Plano friends James, Amy, and Eliana with us!

This isn't actually James or Amy or Ellie; but it's the only picture of a James Wiebe I could find! (Thank you, Google Images!)

And let me introduce you to my new best friends whom I love enough to marry should Pete kick the bucket before me.

Who knew there could be such joy in laundry? I cannot say enough good things about my LG Friends. I feel so badly for anyone who doesn't have friends like these . . . ! Rhapsodize, rhapsodize, rhapsodize!

Thad started pre-school, just two days per week (there's only so much time I can give him up!). He goes to

This week was his first week and he was wonderful! He walked in with a little hesitation but no tears or clinging. (I, however, sobbed in the car both days.) His report cards were excellent!

Our Seattle friends Andrew and Karen came down this week to help us rearrange the house and install Tivo--they are great like that!

All in all, we are happily settled and grateful for a new start in an affordable land!

The words that have repeatedly crossed my mind this last month I now offer as a prayer back to the One who gave them to us:

and Amen.

Thanks for reading!

Kïrsten M. Christianson