Grimes in Santa Cruz

   It's been just over a year since I've wrote on this blog yet so much has changed.  Last summer when we were carousing around Europe I had no idea such change was on the horizon . I felt like we were pretty content in our happy little house in Colfax . We had good friends, a lovely house complete with a pool in a country setting surrounded by tall pines and oak trees. We have moved so many times I thought that this was our last stop.  I am not sure why every few years I get this wrestles feeling inside, this ache for change and I can't seem to drive it away.  Perhaps our Europe travels egged it on this time, I'm not quit sure, all I know is it was back.  So when jim started saying he wanted one day to settle near the ocean I jumped on the idea train. Why wait? The kids are growing to an age that if we wait a few more years they will be established in their life in this sleepy little town of Colfax, if we move then we will all be separated. Let's do it now. The kids had all taken such a liking to surfing with their dad they were surprisingly all on board with the idea. I'm not sure how it all happened next but it sort of went like this....
  1- a conversation about living near the beach
   2- a few drives to Santa Cruz to confirm that was the beach town of choice
   3- a call into a our realtor friend to list the house
    4- house sells in three days with a thirty day escrow
     5- roughly 5-6 weeks later we live in Santa Cruz

   And so now begins another crazy new adventure. The grimes in Santa Cruz..
  I think I will begin journaling on here again because life feels so fresh and new. Every day is a new opportunity  for inspiration of one  kind or another. There is so much I'd like to record for my own personal remembrance and I feel  like expressing myself through writing spurs me to look at life in a different   way , in stead of just passing the moments of the day, I find myself looking for something clever or funny or joyful to share. So let's see what the future holds for the grimes in Santa Cruz..