She looks cute and fabulous, doesn't she?
This is quintessential Jami!
My Juicy Twin, Jami
Monday, May 10, 2004
Juicy Jame
This is one of my favorite pictures of Jami. She's wearing the Juicy Sweats that I gave her for Christmas, 2003.
She looks cute and fabulous, doesn't she?
This is quintessential Jami!
My Juicy Twin, Jami
She looks cute and fabulous, doesn't she?
This is quintessential Jami!
My Juicy Twin, Jami
Sunday, May 09, 2004
Picking the Site
It was natural to consider the locations where our family resided. They had all been either fortunate enough or smart enough to choose locations that basked in at least 250 days of sunshine per year: Salt Lake City, UT; Denver, CO; and Boise, ID.
Initially I'd been set on Boise. If Todd was to continue working with Diamond Internet Solutions and maintain working ties in Seattle, Boise was the closest leap. Airfare would be cheap, it could be driven in an eight and a half hour day if need be. And my mother-in-law, the Great Kate, had been pining for grandchildren since before she even had children! I thought surely she'd be the best comrade in motherhood I could ask for. And once we settled into the sunshine, I thought certainly kids would be next on the list of life-items to do (sounds warm and fuzzy when I put it that way, doesn't it?)
Todd was averse to Boise, however. Since he'd gone to college there and had begun his professional ministry career there, Todd felt that going back to Boise would be like stepping backward for him. He wanted the sense of progress, and that I could understand. So Boise was a strike-out.
Salt Lake City was our launching pad, it's where we met and began our relationship. It has great skiing, plenty of sun, and my sister lived there! It also had my sister. We had never really gotten into the swing of "sharing" a city, my sister and I. We're identical twins and we both prize our individuality. Todd said he wanted nothing to do with those battles, even though the idea of being close in proximity to my sister again actually excited me! I was being overly optimistic, Todd said. I knew he was probably right. Why spoil a good thing? As it is, living in separate cities, we are one another's best friends; we talk all the time and visits are at the very least pleasant if not absolutely fantastic. Salt Lake City was also a strike-out.
In the midst of all our considerations of sunshine, Todd thought about Las Vegas. From the get-go I was against it. Todd knew that Las Vegas had been growing in size and economy for the past several years and showed no signs of slowing. He saw opportunity; all I could picture was an arid expanse of city. By mid-May 2004, the weather reports all showed 105 degrees F for a week solid. That's all it took for Todd to concur that Las Vegas was not our spot. Another strike-out.
Denver. It's the city I had loved in my heart since I was 17. My best friend in high school and I used to talk about my moving to Denver someday. It seemed to me just where I belonged. In college when my sister moved to Utah, it looked as if my go-getter twin had established the Mountain West as her thing, and as I've often done in my life, I settled for second best. Seattle. It is the West, after all, even if it is the Pacific Northwest and not the Rocky Mountain West.
In June 1998 my parents moved to Denver and at least one visit per year was now on my itinerary. I thought that, in a way, "home" had become Denver after all! But I hadn't considered actually moving there myself until now.
I'd been living far from my parents since 1997 and really did miss them. And the prospect of having children and not having them be somewhat involved in their grandparents' lives was not something I felt good about. Children need grandparents and vice versa. As for Kate--hopefully they'll retire in Colorado, too!
My parents have been planning their own move to retirement in the next year, and initially they were thinking of moving to Grand Junction, CO. That would be 4 hours west of Denver. As Todd and I settled onto the idea of Denver, I hoped that my parents would change direction and stay a little closer to the big city. Why go all that way and have them leave! Or so I thought.
So in May 2004 Todd and I decided that Denver was our next big move.
Ironically, through a series of unforeseen events, as of July 2004 my twin sister is no longer living in Salt Lake City but in none other than Denver! But we are confident that Denver is big enough for the two of us.
Initially I'd been set on Boise. If Todd was to continue working with Diamond Internet Solutions and maintain working ties in Seattle, Boise was the closest leap. Airfare would be cheap, it could be driven in an eight and a half hour day if need be. And my mother-in-law, the Great Kate, had been pining for grandchildren since before she even had children! I thought surely she'd be the best comrade in motherhood I could ask for. And once we settled into the sunshine, I thought certainly kids would be next on the list of life-items to do (sounds warm and fuzzy when I put it that way, doesn't it?)
Todd was averse to Boise, however. Since he'd gone to college there and had begun his professional ministry career there, Todd felt that going back to Boise would be like stepping backward for him. He wanted the sense of progress, and that I could understand. So Boise was a strike-out.
Salt Lake City was our launching pad, it's where we met and began our relationship. It has great skiing, plenty of sun, and my sister lived there! It also had my sister. We had never really gotten into the swing of "sharing" a city, my sister and I. We're identical twins and we both prize our individuality. Todd said he wanted nothing to do with those battles, even though the idea of being close in proximity to my sister again actually excited me! I was being overly optimistic, Todd said. I knew he was probably right. Why spoil a good thing? As it is, living in separate cities, we are one another's best friends; we talk all the time and visits are at the very least pleasant if not absolutely fantastic. Salt Lake City was also a strike-out.
In the midst of all our considerations of sunshine, Todd thought about Las Vegas. From the get-go I was against it. Todd knew that Las Vegas had been growing in size and economy for the past several years and showed no signs of slowing. He saw opportunity; all I could picture was an arid expanse of city. By mid-May 2004, the weather reports all showed 105 degrees F for a week solid. That's all it took for Todd to concur that Las Vegas was not our spot. Another strike-out.
Denver. It's the city I had loved in my heart since I was 17. My best friend in high school and I used to talk about my moving to Denver someday. It seemed to me just where I belonged. In college when my sister moved to Utah, it looked as if my go-getter twin had established the Mountain West as her thing, and as I've often done in my life, I settled for second best. Seattle. It is the West, after all, even if it is the Pacific Northwest and not the Rocky Mountain West.
In June 1998 my parents moved to Denver and at least one visit per year was now on my itinerary. I thought that, in a way, "home" had become Denver after all! But I hadn't considered actually moving there myself until now.
I'd been living far from my parents since 1997 and really did miss them. And the prospect of having children and not having them be somewhat involved in their grandparents' lives was not something I felt good about. Children need grandparents and vice versa. As for Kate--hopefully they'll retire in Colorado, too!
My parents have been planning their own move to retirement in the next year, and initially they were thinking of moving to Grand Junction, CO. That would be 4 hours west of Denver. As Todd and I settled onto the idea of Denver, I hoped that my parents would change direction and stay a little closer to the big city. Why go all that way and have them leave! Or so I thought.
So in May 2004 Todd and I decided that Denver was our next big move.
Ironically, through a series of unforeseen events, as of July 2004 my twin sister is no longer living in Salt Lake City but in none other than Denver! But we are confident that Denver is big enough for the two of us.
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