moving to Colorado

Last August Aaron was asked to manage the offices in Colorado Springs/Denver. It was supposed to be a temporary thing while USAA found someone to permanently take that position. Aaron was also still managing his team here in San Antonio. He started working one week in Colorado, then the next here in San Antonio, and then back to CO and so on... It was a long fall. Our family had a hard time getting used to Aaron being gone from our home half of every month. He was doing double the work load of his peers, and it was challenging for him to say the least. Aaron has really excelled at USAA and was ranked #1 as a director in the company at the time. I think that was why he was asked to take this on... I think they knew if anyone could handle running two teams, Aaron could. He did an excellent job! He loved Colorado. We started feeling excited about the possibility of a move in that direction. We were hopeful that we may have a new opportunity. It wasn't until the end of the year that they officially made Aaron an offer and asked him to relocate and run the Colorado Springs/Denver offices permanently. We felt good about it. We'd had a good feeling about it for quite some time. (And if you know me... that is just crazy that I was excited about this. I hate change. But for some reason it just felt right.) Aaron and I both felt our family needed a change at that time. And a new adventure as a family sounded fun. We love doing outdoor things with the boys and Colorado has so much of that to offer. We took a family vote. We sat around the table and each of us listed the pros and cons. As a family we decided to accept the offer. It has now been 4 months since we accepted that offer. We put our home on the market in february. Our home sold very fast. We were under contract on it after one day on the market. We never expected that to happen. It's a big blessing.... and we are thankful. But it's also brought on more anxiety than I could handle. It has not been easy. There have been 3 house hunting trips over the last several months and we didn't find one we liked enough to buy. The thought of renting and having to move twice has been disappointing. USAA is moving our things for us and it just would have been so much nicer to just move once and let them take care of it. The next move after this rental home - will be on us. More work and expense. Also, with not finding a home to buy that brought on many more worries. Like where do we put the kids in school? And worrying that when we find a home to buy the kids could possibly have to move schools/ward again. I would hate for that to happen. And we have regretted selling before the end of the school year too. We are realizing now just how much harder it makes it for our kids. The are involved in different things in school that they want to finish up. Dallon is really struggling with the move. He is a seventh grader now - will be 13 next month. It's a hard time of life to move. I understand that. He has said that he wishes he never would have voted to move... that it was a big mistake. And we've heard the classic teenager line "you are ruining my life". It's heartbreaking to see him struggle with it. I hope it brings us closer together as a family. I hope we are doing the right thing. I am thankful for the peace and clarity I felt at the time of making the decision, and grateful to have that to fall back on. I hope we have fun discovering new things to do together in our new city. It will be wonderful to have Aaron home with us each evening after work. I am still excited about a new adventure. Really scared, and excited all at the same time. I can't believe it is already time for the move. We are moving this weekend. The Van line will be here wed - friday (21-23) as we pack the boxes and load the truck. We will clean our home when they are done. Then our family will get in the car with our cat spots in tow and make the trip to CO. We will be in CO by sunday, and our things will all be unloaded off the truck and into our rental home on Monday the 26th.