I have lived in Illinois my entire life. Raised in a small town in the middle of a corn field that you wouldn't even know was there if you didn't live in a town that surrounds it. It wasn't even a town, it was a village. It was great. I moved around a little as a kid and even as an adult. Upgrading and eventually buying a house in another town you probably have never heard of and that's fine with me.
But over the last several years my husband has been talking more and more about moving. We had several things that kept us in Illinois. His grandma, my grandparents, our kids, some family things on his side, the kids adoptions. But as of about a week ago, everything that was really holding us here, is gone. There's nothing stopping us from picking a spot on the map, packing all our worldly possessions and moving to a new state.
We aren't entirely sure where we'd want to move. Right now we're looking at Texas but I'd prefer somewhere a little closer to IL just so if I need to get here quickly it's not a 16 hour drive with two kids. We road trip to Missouri quite a bit but if I could get even closer to Florida that would be better. I know I'm contradicting myself there. I want to be a quick drive but also closer to Disney World, that's not really easy is it? Texas has some new spots opening up at the company my husband works for is the main reason we're looking there. Moving to a new state is so scary. Not only am I further from where I grew up and everything I've known my entire life, but also you can't know where the safe areas are without doing a mountain of research and even then you don't know for sure. Moving to a town in your home state is so much easier, you know where the crack heads are in those towns.
I'll certainly keep the blog updated if we end up moving.
When it comes to our family, I want to stress that anything is possible, but we are not planning for anything big in the coming years. No new additions that is. We are hopeful that should my stepdaughter fall pregnant for a third time, we are able to point the state in the direction of a friend of ours who was recently licensed and looking to adopt. It would sadden me greatly to know that one of my grandchildren was put into a system designed to fail them and should it come down to it, we would end up taking the baby if they couldn't be placed with someone we know. As much as I'm not wanting to add another baby to our family, I also don't intend on letting a child down if I can help it.
I know that I've previously stated that we would take babies until we physically cannot anymore, but I'm willing to give a trusted friend a baby they desperately hope for should I be able to also.
That is where we are on the future. There's no big plan, just little rumblings of what could be. We will know more about a move in the coming weeks.
Thanks for reading friends!
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