My relationship to labor

Hi friends,

For all of June, I’ve been telling my husband that we are “living a lot of life right now.” 

Why? 

Well, in his book, Life In Transition: Mastering Change At Any Age, author Bruce Feiler states that, on average, people will experience 3-5 major life changes, or lifequakes, in their lifetime. Lifequakes are life-changing events that happen every couple of years and punctuate your experience. For my husband and I, those lifequakes all seem to be happening this summer.

Everything is changing. We lost a parent on June 3rd and are still grieving as the dynamics of our family continue to change. My husband left his beloved job of 14 years for a new one in a new field. That job will move us across the country this summer. So we will be packing up a house on one coast and moving into another on a different coast. (We don’t have that new house yet btw).  This move will be the farthest that I’ve lived from my family, especially my twin sister, nieces, and nephews, ever. And all of this …