Hey all!  It has been a long while since we have written a new blog post.  No real reason–life, a COVID year, being a teacher, a mom, a wife, all of the above.  This post is to really talk to you all–our friends, family, and followers–about how our blog will look in future posts.  Years ago…boy, I can’t even remember how long ago, we started Simplexity319 to share with all of you how we were planning to build our family–through adoption.  I’m proud of how we documented our journey; however, now looking back, some of our posts are super cringy (but hey, that’s learning and living), contain way too much information, and do not truly depict how we feel now as more educated parents and people.  

Now it is 2021.  We are the parents to two children, a 14 year old daughter and a 12 year old son.  We went through and are still going through COVID while parenting for a long time in more isolation than we ever thought we would.  

To say that we have learned a lot is an understatement. 

In the last year I have been what I like to call “stretched” rather than “pushed to my limit”.  

I taught face to face through a COVID year.

I learned how to be a parent during a global pandemic.

I had a husband who had an entire camp to be responsible for when much of his staff was furloughed.

But I grew.  

This year most recently I CHOSE to leave the job and school I love dearly and planned to retired from in the name of human rights, ethics, and what is best educationally for not just my children, but all children.

Tonight I told my children they wouldn’t be going back to the school that they barely knew but still loved.  They cried.  But they also knew why Mom and Dad made that decision.  

I’m so proud of them.  

So…what does our blog look like now?  It will probably involve stories about our basement filling up with sewage (yes, this happened), and me sitting on my bedroom floor writing or reading.  It will definitely involve weird camp stories, and some of the adorable, but annoying things our kids do. It won’t be focusing on our children’s personal stories.  It won’t be making them the poster children for older children adoption.  It will be “simplex”.  Just the stories and lessons of a former middle school teacher, a camp director, and their two beautiful children trying to do this thing called life as honestly as possible.

~Chelsea