09/13/2016
Transitions are something I feel like I know a thing or two about these days. I go back and forth between feeling like I’m simultaneously in two places at once– my heart both in LA, a city I called home for a decade and here in Austin, the city that I’ve called home for the other 22 years of my life. September feels like a similar predicament. The weather still says summer, but the kids are back to school, the days are slowly getting shorter, and all other signs point to fall. I went a couple of months after we … 
On Friday, I mentioned in this house update post that it’s been a full three months since we moved to Austin in June. To say that it has flown by still sounds like a major understatement. I feel like if we flew back to LA tomorrow and walked into our old place we could still pick up where we left off– which likely has a lot to do with not feeling totally settled since most of our things are still in boxes while we await our new house. However, with rumors of a cold front around the corner and calendars that are reading … 
Happy Friday, friends! It feels like we are overdue for a house update– it’s been over two months since this post. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to write an update or haven’t had time, it’s just that not all that much has been happening. At least not a lot of exciting, post-worthy stuff anyways. There was so much we didn’t know going into this whole crazy process, so I thought I would write an update here on the step by step that we’ve been going through for anyone who has ever wanted … 
While some families are starting to go back to school, Parker’s new school year actually began when we moved to Austin. We love the school we found for her and we are so excited for her to be with her peers day in and day out. She is super social and loves being around other kids, so I found myself utterly unprepared for the emotions that ensued when she began school in June. We created a morning routine and some backpack essentials that helped ease the pains of the transition to preschool– more details on those below– and … 
