I feel like nothing confirms a good relationship more than a 6 day moving trip with the ones you love. Moving alone is stressful, but add a dog and 5 month old to the mix and it’s a whole different ballgame. In addition to that add no place to live when we arrive at our destination, moving to a city that is only accessible by air or ferry, and moving to a city where we don’t know anyone. This is what we took on and I am happy to say we did it very gracefully. To me this confirms just how good D and I compliment each other.

I won’t lie I was worried with all the stress associated with moving and the added crazy we had, plus my own added crazy I thought for sure there would be a fight or two. Or at least maybe some moments where we need time to ourself (which is totally natural and acceptable). I cannot express how much confidence and comfort it brings me to know that D and I know each other well enough to make this trip seamless and even fun.

I have gained a great deal of confidence in our ability to work through anything in last year moving once again, having a baby, and the first few months of newborn life crazy mom and all. This confidence helps when we were headed to a place where we had eachother and that was it. It’s nice to know that we can make it and that like we always tell eachother all we need is our family and we are good but to actually see that in action that is reassuring.

Don’t get me wrong there were times on this trip when it felt like we just needed a little space, but when those times came up, we worked together to get a little time to ourselves and recoup. Also I just want to brag here, D is an incredible husband. As I am sure you could imagine I was sort of all over the place before and during this trip I was trying to make sure everyone was taken care of, dealing with the reality that we moved, worrying about 13 million things that either never happened, would probably never happen, or at least won’t happen for the next 30 years, typical mom stuff. D was amazing the whole time he reassured my irrational fears, he comforted me when I missed home, he made me laugh when he could tell I was too stressed, and he loved me unconditionally.

I think it’s amazing that we really are a team. We were constantly checking on eachother and sort of giving reports of how we were, where we were, and so forth. It was a constant team effort and I have so much confidence in our future as a team and as our family grows and changes.