Holiday letter
Dear family and friends,
It has been cold and frosty the past few mornings here in Portland. With Christmas nearly upon us it got me to thinking about the annual Christmas letter that we never seem to get written. Well this year is the year to actually get one done!
It has been a very busy year for us this year with many changes! Linda and I began the year with a trip to Maui in February to visit an old friend. It was a great break from the wet Tacoma weather, the regular routine, and a great time to catch up with Sonny. It was fortunate that we took a break then as the rest of the year has been a whirlwind. At times it felt as if we were just along for the ride, events carrying us along.
Pretty much ever since Rachel & Josh moved to Portland our eldest daughter has waged a campaign to get the family to follow. This year the campaign stepped up a notch as Rachel started to send Linda & I job and house possibilities and announced that we would be grandparents later in the year!
With all of the kids out of the house (Epiphany living in Seattle and nephew Jason in Lacy) we began seriously contemplating the possibility of a move. Call it karma, fate, kismet, the hand of God, sometimes it seems like things are just meant to be. In the beginning of March we listed our house and started looking in earnest for jobs in Portland. By the beginning of May we had a signed offer on the house, Linda was living at Rachel & Josh’s working her new medical billing job and apartment hunting in Portland. I was splitting my time between closing Spoke & Sprocket, our business of 17 years and training for my new position at REI in Clackamas. I was splitting my time living with the rest of the family at the ‘Hotel Ferdaszewski’ as Rachel & Josh’s home had been dubbed, and living in our home in Tacoma as we moved toward closing.
We had the shop closed the end of May and our house sale closed in June. We spent the summer in an apartment in SE Portland while house hunting. By September we had closed on a house in NE Portland! It is a nice Cape Cod in a wonderful neighborhood and literally (and I mean that in the truest sense of the word) across from the bike path I take to work each day.
In the middle of the summer, Epiphany also succumbed to the siren song of Portland and moved south, finding employment with a local bike shop and a coffee shop. Our granddaughter Sophia Epiphany Ferdaszewski was born the day before thanksgiving! She is healthy, beautiful and very good natured and of course dearly loved by all!.
After Christmas Epiphany heads further south to spend time studying bookbinding at a Buddhist monastery in Sonoma, so things keep changing!
It has been cold and frosty the past few mornings here in Portland. With Christmas nearly upon us it got me to thinking about the annual Christmas letter that we never seem to get written. Well this year is the year to actually get one done!
It has been a very busy year for us this year with many changes! Linda and I began the year with a trip to Maui in February to visit an old friend. It was a great break from the wet Tacoma weather, the regular routine, and a great time to catch up with Sonny. It was fortunate that we took a break then as the rest of the year has been a whirlwind. At times it felt as if we were just along for the ride, events carrying us along.
Pretty much ever since Rachel & Josh moved to Portland our eldest daughter has waged a campaign to get the family to follow. This year the campaign stepped up a notch as Rachel started to send Linda & I job and house possibilities and announced that we would be grandparents later in the year!
With all of the kids out of the house (Epiphany living in Seattle and nephew Jason in Lacy) we began seriously contemplating the possibility of a move. Call it karma, fate, kismet, the hand of God, sometimes it seems like things are just meant to be. In the beginning of March we listed our house and started looking in earnest for jobs in Portland. By the beginning of May we had a signed offer on the house, Linda was living at Rachel & Josh’s working her new medical billing job and apartment hunting in Portland. I was splitting my time between closing Spoke & Sprocket, our business of 17 years and training for my new position at REI in Clackamas. I was splitting my time living with the rest of the family at the ‘Hotel Ferdaszewski’ as Rachel & Josh’s home had been dubbed, and living in our home in Tacoma as we moved toward closing.
We had the shop closed the end of May and our house sale closed in June. We spent the summer in an apartment in SE Portland while house hunting. By September we had closed on a house in NE Portland! It is a nice Cape Cod in a wonderful neighborhood and literally (and I mean that in the truest sense of the word) across from the bike path I take to work each day.
In the middle of the summer, Epiphany also succumbed to the siren song of Portland and moved south, finding employment with a local bike shop and a coffee shop. Our granddaughter Sophia Epiphany Ferdaszewski was born the day before thanksgiving! She is healthy, beautiful and very good natured and of course dearly loved by all!.
After Christmas Epiphany heads further south to spend time studying bookbinding at a Buddhist monastery in Sonoma, so things keep changing!
Labels: Epiphany, Holiday, Josh, Portland, Rachel, REI, Sophia, Spoke, Sprocket
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