Starting to get settled :)

I've discovered that one of the hardest parts about being on the road and constantly moving from town to town is you never really feel at home.  Thats the biggest reason I wanted our 5th wheel to feel so homey because its the only sense of home we have.  It can get really frustrating every time we are in a new town trying to find grocery stores, churches, doctors, dentists, rv parks, walking / running trails, coffee shops, things you take for granted when you know right where they are when you have lived in a certain place for years.  In Carlsbad, NM there was not much to get to know, or want to know.  It was very small with nothing around it and I was 20 miles from town so I didn't really commit to getting settled.

We've been in Greeley for about 10 weeks now and I can finally say I am feeling good here.  The RV park is not the greatest by any means but other than that I like it.  I think after awhile you start to get used to the trains that blow their horns all through the night, the 18 wheelers that use their jake breaks right outside your trailer 24 hours a day and crazy wind that threatens to blow you over.

I hardly have to use my navigation now to get around.  We've found a great church that we love and have been going to every sunday since the first of the year.  They have 4 services on Sundays, 3 in the morning and 1 at night so even when Brandon has class we can still go to the evening service and we love it there.  They were SO welcoming from the second we walked in the door.  We were greeted by a gentleman who promptly introduced us to the pastor.  He asked Brandon what he does and he said "I work on power lines". Its kinda what we have learned to tell people because if you say "I'm a lineman" they ask "for what team" haha.  Well the pastor goes "oh is that the same thing as a lineman" Brandon and I were blown away and he said yes and the pastor quickly introduced us to another member of the church that is a lineman.  It was such a great feeling from the start and we feel so at home there.

We found a dentist and got our teeth cleaned, found a few parks to go walking at and even found some tennis courts and played a round or two :) ( I totally killed brandon in our match ups!) We've found a couple cute coffee shops that are relaxing and also very popular, sometimes hard to even find a seat!

The greatest find of all though is my doctor.  The two big things that were keeping me from wanting to have a baby on the road was not getting to have a nursery and not having MY doctor back home.  I love my doctor back home so much and felt very comfortable with him but I decided I could be flexible and find someone new wherever we went.  I had my first appointment back in January and did not like the doctor at all.  I was pretty upset thinking what have I done, this is going to be so hard.  I decided to look at other doctors in the office and found a midwife there and scheduled my next appointment with her.  I got to see her a couple weeks ago and Brandon and I both LOVE her!! She is so sweet and very informative, which is exactly what I was looking for.  She is very open to my birth plan and said she'll do anything she can to help me.  She is also so understanding of us moving around and doesn't make us feel bad about it or give us any less care just because we might not be here the whole time.

I know I am jinxing us by writing this post.  I know we'll probably get called to somewhere new next week and I'll have to adjust all over again but I am ok with that.  I am just so happy that I have been able to really enjoy it here and learn how to live in a new city in a short time.  I feel like I am not just "living" though, I've made a life here.  I am going to do that in every town we go to so I always feel at home :)