By late 2007 abby and I were seriously considering making a family. In October, I had a rather uncomfortable surgery to clear up a problem that could cause obstacles in that department. Later that month we squeezed in a quick vacation and visited my college friend in NYC. That was alot of fun.
In December 2007 abby was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and was relieved that there was an explanation for the way she was feeling. She still is dealing with this problem today.
Then came 2008 which was the crazy year. It started out pleasant enough. We attended my sister Deanna's wedding in Fort Wayne in late January. Leading up to that Abby had been feeling wonky really tired but thought it was related to her thyroid problem for which she recently started taking medication. The next week abby was still tired, wonky and decided to take a pregnancy test. which was positive. We weren't expecting that to happen so quickly after my surgery and abby starting her thyroid treatment. but there you go.
We were wishy-washy in the past on how to go about moving back to Indiana. But now that baby part of the equation was firmly in place, it just felt right to move back to Indiana ASAP. So we acted quickly to get that lined up. First priority was to find jobs which we accomplished by the end of March. Step two was selling the house which was a daunting proposition in a suddenly-decrepit housing market. Once we had the house on the market we started looking for an apartment in Indiana move to until it sold. Fishers was pretty much the midpoint between our two places of employment. Abby's sister also lived there so we knew it reasonably well already. So we found something in Fishers.
We moved to Indy in late April and started our new jobs. Our house in Ohio sold about two weeks later. Talk about luck! We immediately started looking at houses in Fishers to move into. We didn't want to stay in an apartment any longer than we had to. We looked at a bunch of houses and found one we really liked. Somehow we managed to get the closings worked out so that we closed on the Ohio house a few days before we closed on the Indiana house. We slowly started moving in to the new house in early June.
In the middle of all that we got the important ultrasound results and found out that the baby was a boy. that was exciting. We started the fun process of picking a name. Oh, and we also had to buy a car in May as our lease expired on the Nissan Murano. That was an afterthought at that point.
The rest of 2008 was more normal as we settled into the new house and prepared for baby. Showers, birthing classes, buying and putting together the crib. stuff you'd expect.
Then came Everett at the end of September. And our lives are forever changed. but for the better.
We had a little more turmoil to end 2008 as our sump pump failed and our basement flooded. That wasn't fun. Soon after, our water heater started leaking, most likely fallout from the flood.
Looking back, we feel incredibly fortunate to have made it through such upheaval unscathed. Things aligned with nearly cosmic precision. What could have been a really *really* difficult period of change turned out to be mostly just stressful and frantic. If one of us had trouble finding a job or we weren't able to sell the house we'd have been in trouble. What's more, we both ended up in really great jobs. We didn't have to settle just to get to Indiana.
Things got gradually easier in 2009 as Everett grew up and became more independent. Our lives are now obviously based around the kid. I wouldn't say life is a struggle, but we have to be more structured and planned these days. Finding time to do anything other than maintain our routine is difficult.
We took our first vacation with Everett in August 2009 when we went to the Gatlinburg area of Tennessee. I got sick, everett had the runs and diaper rash, but overall the trip was positive. It was good to be traveling again.
So there's that. a not-so-brief history of my 3rd decade. when shit got real.
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