right where i'm supposed to be

I moved just about three years ago and I have felt (from about the time i hired a moving company) that I made a huge mistake. I loved the house I was in (while i fully acknowledge our family was growing out of it), but what i realized as i was preparing to leave was that I was leaving a community...something I have struggled to find, feel or be a part of where ever i have 'lived' (apart from my immediate family).
Moving with two kids was not nearly the struggle I had made it to be in my mind,  but in my head is where I spend a good bit of my time. Seeing as how I still had things packed in boxes from moving into the house I was moving out of...
I am still unpacking and learning to make a home in this house I moved into, almost...three years ago.

The house we moved into, our home, was not a first choice (or second even) it was really a choice made out of my desire to move only this one time, not sign a short term lease, not put stuff in storage and not move into an apartment until we found 'our house'.
This house is our home and I did not start to (get over myself) accept that until about two years in...I spent that those first 18 months or so complaining about being too far away from the very thing I continue to struggle to find....community. I had moved away from the things that were parts of mine and my family's routine, stores and neighbors. I left my neighbors and have really only recently begun to connect with my "new" neighbors.

Somebody asked me recently, "Why did you move?" and  it was only until I began writing this post that i could give an answer...I am an impetuous impulsive.  I've named it, accepted it, am beginning to understand it and most importantly I am  moving forward.
I am finding that I am IN a community...and I have immersed myself enough to see the path that I have been on, the people I have met, "changes" i have made are all a part of my learning, growing and (most excitedly) being part of a community.
The school my kid(s) get to attend, the Teachers, Educators, Administrators, Staff and Parents involved with our school are absolutely "Tops" to me!  My kids enjoy being at school, learning and growing (albeit waaay too fast)...I attribute this to my kindergartner having the perfect fit of a kindergarten teacher, support, and encouragement and for all of these things to come together I had to be where I am.  I am home.

My path brought me to CG where I have...wait for it....A COMMUNITY of people on their own paths, people I get work out with and whose faces and high fives push me do better & be better. I have a stronger body and mind and have shown myself that I Can do anything I want to do; sometimes i will have to work harder be patient and dig in, and sometimes it may just comes together, but I know I Can!!!

Where i am is right where we needed to be to begin building these relationships, instilling values and a firm foundation for our family to grow.