This month marks the 1 year anniversary of our arrival in Thatcher. Luke was just learning how to walk then, and now he's running and pushing trucks up and down hills. In a lot of ways I still feel like I'm new here. Ty knows everyone and everyone knows him, because he grew up here. I'm still trying to get to know who everyone is ( and how exactly we're related to them!). It didn't take me long for me to figure out my way around town.
After living in the Phoenix and dealing with that traffic and my 20 min. drive one-way to Wal-Mart, I swore to myself when we moved here that I would never complain about the traffic or having to drive to the other end of Safford to run errands (approx. 5 min. drive). That didn't last long. I already put off driving to the bank in Safford unless I have some other reason to drive uptown. I really love the views, and being able to see mountains from almost anywhere in town. I love that my new friends have taught me to do new things like can beans. I love that I have a house and a garden. I love that Luke will never run out of endless expanses of dirt to push his trucks on. I love living close to the community college.
While not everything is better in a small town than a city (like the shopping for example!), this has been a good move for us.
