Coburn Kids

The Draper Temple dedication is now done and over with. Daniel and I brought the kids and went with my parents to walk through the temple a few weeks back. Gena and Adessa were so thrilled to go! They loved it. They asked lots of questions and were just generally enthused to see it and how beautiful it was. My Mom and Dad also came up this last Sunday to watch the kids so that Daniel and I could go to the dedicatory services for it. Again, wonderful and so special. We were there an hour before it began in our Stake Center and still sat in the overflow, but that hour before was so quiet and peaceful. I forget sometimes with 3 kids running around how valuable and precious that much quiet time can be! So I sat and meditated on life, on my children, on the gospel and about my wonderful husband.

In extremely exciting news, after 5 months we now have an official job offer and we’ve accepted! It is out of state but we are blessed because we will get to be near family still, which is invaluable to us. So come mid-April we are packing up the family and headed to Chicago, IL. Daniel has a great new job with Sears and I can’t tell you how grateful and enthused we are about it. The fact that we will have good health insurance again also brings a smile.

Of course, the coordination of the move wipes that smile right off!! I have to now get in place all of Caden’s new doctors and reschedule all his upcoming appointments. We’ll be able to do his Swallow Study here in Salt Lake but his ophthalmology, cardiology, ENT, GI doctor, geneticist, therapists, preemie clinic, cleft clinic, and all other appointments we had upcoming here now have to be redone. Which is a very daunting task. Not to mention getting Gena into her new school and all the fun moving things such as utilities and the like. I’m up for it though.

It’s exciting and scary to move all at the same time. You get comfortable in a place after a few years. You settle in, everything becomes familiar. There’s a pattern and a rhythm that life develops. Then you have to uproot and everything is new, different, and you feel out of place for a bit. I’m teaching the girls that this is a new adventure for us. One chapter of our lives closing and a new one beginning. It’s hard to leave so much behind though. Family, friends, a fantastic ward who has helped us out in ways I can’t even begin to thank them. The mountains… I’ll miss the mountains. But we have new experiences and opportunities before us and I acknowledge and realize just how lucky we are to get this great job offer. Times are hard and scary, so to have that bit of stability back in our lives is something I am grateful for.