I am...

I am:

excited, sad, happy, scared, stressed, ecstatic.

there is so much going on and I feel like the days are passing faster than normal. each day I'm more and more excited and I just want to be up there already but I also feel like I am going to run out of time here before I know it without being able to savor the remaining moments, or forge enough new memories, or relive enough old ones.

I am:

going to miss florida.

the sky being so close to the ground, the beaches, my family, the everglades, dear friends, rain everyday at three o' clock, disney world, swimming in december.

I am:

still confident I am doing the right thing.

going back to my roots, starting fresh and most of all, finally being able to begin a journey I vowed to start almost two years ago.

I am:

ready for this adventure.

intro

hi, my name is tara and in nine days my husband and i are taking our dog and as many of our possessions as we can fit in our car and moving 1500 miles north to rhode island.

first, a little backstory: I'm originally from rhode island, I lived there the first fourteen years of my life then my family moved to royal palm beach, florida where I have resided for the past ten years. I have been married for almost two years now and my husband, dan, and our dog, ziva, have been a happy little family. however, dan and I were both feeling that we were lacking any forward motion in life. we had gone from living with our parents, then with room mates, to currently renting a room from my very generous uncle. we realized we needed to spread our wings and try to fly (without a safety net this time) and if that meant jumping on an opportunity for us to have our own apartment in rhode island, well, we were game.

so now we are nine days away from embarking on this huge endeavor and in typical tara fashion, I've barely begun to pack...

There is so much to do and so little time to do it. I guess that's what happens when you plan a cross country move on the fly but I'm ready to take it on. it's going to be an awfully big adventure.

So long, rainy days in paradise.