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I'm a new employee of the Stay-At-Home-Mom business.  This is the first time in about 7 years that I have spent so much time within the confines of "home".  It's not all bad, or rather, not bad at all.  I get to stay up late, sleep in late (don't tell my husband that).  I get to focus on teaching our daughter about the ins and outs of life.  Everything was so rushed when I went to work from 8am to 5pm.  So exhausting.  My project list was starting to look like a hoarder.  Life, the fun part, was a wreck. 

I come from a town of about 3,000 people.  Seems like a lot on paper right?  It's enough from the bored hens of the grocery store to know what's going on with everyone in town.  When you look at it like that, the population is actually very small.  It's funny how people who live in small towns like these have a crazy misconception that they are safe and everything past the city limit sign is a zombie apocalypse.  This was my picture of the world.  When you watched the news the only things that were going on were shootings, murders, robberies, kidnapping, hit and runs, the devil's handy work.  My husband had lived outside of the safety net of our small community.  He spoke of  things like stores that were open past 8pm and people not knowing a thing about you and things that you could do that didn't require a 2 hour drive.  I was skeptical.  But when you are looking at your bank account the day after payday and you have $2 for the next 2 weeks you start to get desperate. 

He found a job in the Denver area.  Something that he could apply his college education to.  So we moved to the big scary city.  Oh was I terrified.  There were so many people, about 2.6 million people.  And from what I gathered from the last 21 years of watching the news, most of them were bad people.  I quickly realized that life beyond the city limit sign was anything but the apocalypse.  There was food, so much fast food.  There were malls.  I could need something and just go buy it.  I didn't have to order it or drive 2 hours to get it.  Life was easy.  So easy that we moved to an even bigger city.  Boston - 4.6 million people.

So here we are in one of the nicest suburbs of the Boston area.  Natick.  This town alone has about 33,000 people.  The best part about this area is it's far enough away from the city that we can see the stars.  Small town people love the comfort of the stars...