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Swapping Altitude for Acreage

I’m a Midwest city girl, turned Colorado transplant that just uprooted our family of five and moved clear across the map. Here I share messy, funny, and heartwarming bits of parenthood, moving mishaps, and the slow work of making a new place feel like home.

Pull up a chair, follow along, and enjoy the trade off of Mountain View’s for quiet country roads.

Chasing Waterfalls

We arrived late at night to a sky full of stars and a chill in the air. Also a rooster across the street that has no sense of time. You can hear cock a doodle doo at all ours of the day (and night). 

Listen close for the time-confused rooster

There has been lots of cousin hangs, rummy tournaments (happy to report I’m still the reigning champ), portrait drawings (Mila is becoming quite the artist), and mastering duck calls.

Weather has been a little bleak so we had to take advantage of our few good days…Sorry TLC but we did in fact go chasing waterfalls. 

Taughannock Falls—the tallest falls East of the Mississippi (the video is from a different view and day, much colder and angrier). Ithaca Falls—where Mila begged to swim despite the signs that warned of death. She insisted that she “couldn’t die” even though she for sure can’t swim.

We got to walkthrough our future home and lets just say it is not as close to move in ready as we had hoped. I really thought we left our bad luck in Colorado. But since we can’t control the wind, we will be adjusting our sails again. 

For all of you that are following along…it looks like there will be some renovation content in the not so distant future.

Mila was here. Always leaving her mark.

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