Pueblo in Review Part 2

                                                                  I need to lead with the fact that it's been an intensely difficult and stressful few months. We're working hard to get enjoyment where we can, but I've had at least a mild stress stomachache almost continuously since mid-May. These candles are used in Mayan ancestor ceremonies, and I bought and used them in a private ceremony of my own after my Grandmother, Dorothy, died in early June, just a couple of weeks short of her 96th birthday. It comforted me that our visit in 2017 was so quality, and that she was feeling so good, because she was poorly for most of 2018. But I really hate that I was only a few weeks from moving east when we lost her. In so many ways, this transition was way harder than I'd imagined.

I can't leave this for later: we're also STILL waiting for our house to sell. We had it on the market for all of May, it sold in early June after several insultingly low offers, and then the buyers reneged and we were back where we started. We put it back on the market on the 22nd, and we've had lots of showings, but here we are, July 11th, still waiting for even an offer. It's exquisite torment. I probably need to find a way to cope better with it, but I don't do well with this sort of situation. Every day feels like a year. I'd appreciate prayers!

Here is how we said goodbye to Pueblo:

We went to the Rides at City Park one more time:

We enjoyed the desert, and also danced in the rain!

I celebrated my birthday with a new dress and a visit to a dog-friendly restaurant in Colorado Springs:
 
Adele graduated kindergarten! and Jon managed to make the ceremony:
And both kids said farewell to Belmont Elementary School, the place in town that's made them the happiest, by far. The only place I cried to leave, to be honest. We all got a bit emotional on the last day, but this transition was made murky by the stress over fixing up and selling the house. We put a LOT of money and time into our house after the buyers backed out, so we're really hurting now as we try to figure out how to get jobs and live up here with no house and one car. Please join us in praying for solutions!

Next post will include pictures of our first weeks in Rochester. I truly am satisfied that we're here, deeply happy that I'll get to be with family, thrilled that I don't have to leave. I get to be here for events I've wanted to attend for years; I get to be here in the FALL, and for Christmas, and etc & etc. I'm trying to focus on that and cast patronuses every day. I have a job interview next Wednesday! Which is very hopeful. In a few months, I'll stand back from the life that I've built and admire it, I know. So I'll try to be patient and wait on the foundations.