News from Down in Schusterville

It is with a mixture of both deep sadness and great excitment that we share with you some big news. By the end of next month, Schusterville, and the 4 Schusters currently living in it, will no longer be located in Marin County, California, but rather in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Shocking, yes, sudden, yes, but there is no doubt in either of our minds that this is the right thing for our little family right now. Those of you who really know me, know that I have always been a firm believer in "everything happens for a reason." Many don't agree with me and that's ok but I believe it and it has not steered me wrong - it is my own version of faith, I guess, faith in myself and faith in our family unit. When Wolf lost his job in July, I was scared shitless, wondering what the heck we were going to do. Yet I always had it in the back of my head that this happened because there is something else we are meant to be doing. What, we had no idea. Then a few weeks ago I saw a job posting on my company's job page for an assistant in Oregon. As soon as I saw it, I knew. Call it weird, call it strange, but I had no doubt that if I wanted that job, it would be mine. In fact, I waited a whole week before I told Wolf about it, so that I could be sure that it was what I wanted to do. But if felt right and it still does. Wolf's response was "go for it." Within a week I had talked to the recruiter, interviewed with several people, got a job offer, adjusted the job offer and finally accepted.

Everything had happened so easily, seamlessly and we were giddy with the excitement of it all. But now we had the hard part.....telling everyone. As we began figuring out how to tell all of our family and friends, we were deeply struck by how many friends we truly have. There are so many of you that are near and dear to our hearts that there was no way that we could tell you all personally. Nor did we just want to put a blanket statement out there in Facebook. So I thought of using my blog to explain it all.

I head up to Oregon early tomorrow morning and will be there all week - for meetings and to find a place for us to live. Wolf and the boys will drive up Wednesday then we will all drive home together on Sunday. Our goal is to find a place next week, sign a lease, then come back down here to get everything packed up and ready to go. The sooner we get the boys up there and settled into school, the better. We are hoping that all will work out so that we are up there by October 15th.

However, there is no way that we will be able to leave without having one last Schuster party. So, on October 8th we will have a gigantic going away potluck at our house. Not sure what time it will start, probably around 3, but details will follow. For now, please hold the date.

Wolf and I are sure you will have questions for us so please feel free to email or call. This is not goodbye as one does not ever say goodbye to friends. You will always be in our hearts and our thoughts and we will be but a phone call or a facebook comment away.

Thank you for loving us, thank you for supporting us and most of all, thank you for being in our lives.

All of our love - Wolf, Amy, Mason and Morgan