You guys. It’s real! The state recommended us for a charter! 

It’s kind of hard to write a post when a) you’re still pretty speechless with excitement and b) your fingers are busy pinching yourself to make sure you’re not dreaming. But here it goes.

This dream. This dream has been at least five years in the making. It wasn’t always easy to share openly and honestly about all the times I felt insecure about pursuing this dream. In such a public space, it’s easy to inadvertently compromise my professionalism. For example, this blog (with posts about miscarriage and everything else) has been read by potential funders during the due

 

This is the year to “put down roots.” I didn’t set a bunch of small intentions because I was so focused on three huge ones:

I had to take a break from this space last week because I was getting sucked into the vortex of these intentions. All at once!

 

We officially moved into our house and also received notification that the charter application has made it to the final round (we interview with the state this Thursday). So we had the stress of