Hey all. Just wanted to share a few thoughts. First of all, I like you all. I also love you all too. Been thinking a lot lately about my relationship with each of you. I want you to know how much it means to me to have you in my life. All of you. If it were truly up to me we would all live on a huge compound where we all had our own houses but were extremely accessible to each other whenever we wanted to be.
Sadly, That is not the case. I am so grateful for technology so we have to ability to stay connected. It has never been my first choice to be far away from you all. But it is my first choice to support Matt in his amazing ambitions and dreams. I want you to know that he started working hard as soon as we arrived here and he has only worked harder every day than he did the day before. He is so talented it makes it easy for me to support and love him. But not so easy to be away from our family at times. I found myself thinking a lot about how close we used to be when we all lived close. Now I'm not saying that we will be able to have those exact same relationships again. I know that our lives are in very different places, Literally and figuratively, than they used to be. But I also don't want to go through my life thinking about how we USED to be so close and how great that was but we are busy so we don't really have time now. I pledge to you all to make more of an effort to be involved in your lives. I am an open book and share a lot on Facebook and Instagram. I also am trying to post blog posts often and call and text you all as much as possible.
When Gram died we all talked about our family. How it's so important to experience each other now and have a family relationship. Well, life is hard and busy and we fall into routines and I am right there with all of that. I am not asking you all to rearrange your lives to call me everyday or FaceTime or email or whatever. I'm just saying I miss you all. I miss our relationships. I want to try and improve them. I want to be more connected. I wanna talk about life, politics, love, friends and anything else you feel like talking about. I don't want to just remember the good ole days! I want us to have good family memories NOW as often as possible.
So this is basically my fancy way of saying that i may be bugging you a bit more than normal. Just because I want our individual families to have a constantly growing relationship. So there you have it.
President Hinckley said we can't just be good. We have to be good for something. And that is a big reason Matt and I moved here. We want to contribute to the world in a positive way. Through music mainly but in other ways too. The sacrifice we make is that we are far. I feel like it's a huge sacrifice. At least for me. But I believe in what we are doing here and I know it's the right place. I just don't want to lose out on all of you because of a silly little thing like 2,000 miles. :)
Anyway. Miss you all. Can't wait to see how everyone's thanksgiving comes together. Love you all!
Stefanie
