Moving back to Ohio

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
Annie Dillard

There are people who would say "Why are you moving back to Ohio, a place where it is cold & snowy, where the economy is poor." Trust me we have thought of those things.
But since living in Virginia, we have greatly missed our families. We wanted for a while now to move closer to them & friends. The quote I started this post with encourages me. We need to take chances in live, even if at times it is easier not to, to stay where we are & not where we want to be. We've been praying for months that God open & close doors, guide us & direct us. He has answered our prayers. Paul is taking a job at a company in Canton, OH doing video editing. The company has been in business for 26 years & going strong. We will live halfway between my parents & my in-laws. It is has been wonderful for us this first year of our marriage to be together in a new place & have to lean on each other more than maybe we would have had to if we'd never lived far away from family. I feel like it was good for us. Now as we enter our second year of marriage & look toward the future with our desires to own a home & have a family it makes sense for us to move back to Ohio. The cost of living is so much better, the area much more the setting in which we'd like to do those things.
Life is an adventure, not always easy, often challenging & it gets hard to know what choices to make. But to grow & learn sometimes we need to "Jump off cliffs" and "Build our wings".