@cleaneater80
I don't have kids but I got moved a lot as a kid.
First I moved from the small farm town where I was born to a city when I was 5. I had gone to kindergarten in my first community and started grade 1 in my new community.
The hard move was when we moved from that city to Calgary just before grade 9. I was so established in my old community and it was really hard on me. I had bad anxiety and panic attacks in my teen years and didn't adjust well.
The biggest thing though in my story, because lots of kids move and are fine, is that on top of that, we moved houses a lot.
By the time I was done living with parents, I had already lived in 11 houses. My first house was the first 5 years of my life so that means the next 10 houses averaged only 1-2 years each.
ANYWAY... this story isn't helpful except to say that moving and general stability were not seen as a big deal in my family but I know it impacted me. In my case my life was in boxes all the time and I never got the sense that I was settled when I was a kid. The fact you're having that intentional thought about a community move and what it will mean tells me that if you do make the move, the emotions of your kid will be top of mind, and I think that's the most important thing.
Last random thought about the moving all the time....
My husband and I built the house we're in and moved in back in 2019 which means by next year it's tied at the longest I've ever lived somewhere, which is so exciting to me. Partially because I've really just started to process this year how much all the moving in my childhood actually impacted parts of my personality (o perhaps reinforced certain things that were already there). My interpretation anyway.
Brad wants to retire elsewhere (somewhere in BC we are thinking) and I intend for us to live in this house until we do, so it's going to smash the record by a long shot I also get antsy at the change even then because I've sorta swung on the pendulum and just want to hold onto the stability of being here as long as possible, but I know an eventual move down the road is in the cards.
Anyone else got a past or present of serial moving? My mom clearly thrived off of it and I know some folks love a change or obviously if you have a military family or something like that it's the norm but yeah.. fun topic @cleaneater80

Also just wanted to give kudos to all you folks doing the dry October, and to those that are keeping their willpower to abstain from alcohol all the time or more than their usual.
I am definitely not able to say I'm doing a dry October but I will say over the last few months the amount of days I drink has gone down and that is a place I feel much better to be in.

Bravo on the loss @lauren_989
Sometimes those surprise losses are just the best
Now you get a week to hopefully work on another one that doesn't feel so surprising!

@ashleycarole86 - Tuesday, October 10th - 6,002 steps - 1 hour of CrossFit (the first one with my husband!)

My day yesterday was 5:30am CrossFit, work by 8, grocery store after work, home by 6:20pm, helped my husband with dinner until my 6:45pm school board meeting (I am the treasurer on a school board for a small charter school in my town). When the meeting ended at 8:40pm, all I wanted to do is go to bed, but I realized I was a couple hundred steps short of my goal. So I stayed up, pitted and froze some plums that were about to go bad, and then did a few laps around the house. I literally hit my goal two steps away from bed.

@ashleycarole86 - I moved a lot after high school. My family was pretty poor when I was young, so we lived in at least three different places that I remember before I was 6 years old - all in the same town. Then, when I was 6, my grandma died. The farm that my dad grew up on was sold and he got a piece of that sale which he put down on a house. I lived in that house from the age of 6 until I went to college. In fact, my mom just sold it a year-and-a-half ago.

In college, I moved every August and May - to school, back home for the summer or wherever I was working for the summer. After college, I came home for the summer and then left in September for the Peace Corps (Madagascar). I only lasted three months before coming back to the States. Between January, 2008 and October, 2010, I lived in four different places. I ended up in one house for two years - October, 2010 - January, 2013. From October, 2013 to June, 2019, I lived in five other homes. Then, in June 2019, I moved to the house I now live in. So, that's 20 moves in the last 20 years, if I'm counting moving during college. 12 moves since college.

I have now been in this one house for four years and I'm starting to go stir crazy. I don't necessarily like moving, but I like change, being somewhere new, experiencing new things, and having a reason to regularly purge.

I guess the morale of this is that every human treats moving and change in different ways because it impacts each person differently. @cleaneater80, it is so great that you are considering your kids in your possible move! I think you ultimately have to make the best decision for you and your family, but keep talking with your kids; especially if a move is involved.

Username: JScottJr1988
Weigh in day: Wednesday
PW: 202
CW: 205

Some of you will remember my last Vegas trip had me weigh in a whopping 10 pounds above my previous weigh-in!
My vacation bloat is always insane so I'll take how quickly I'm bouncing back this time to be good overall, despite the red.
Work on a green week starts NOW!