We Have A HUGE Life Update!! Things Are About To Get CRAZY...
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Jacob and I are moving twice in six months to Florida! In this episode, we tell the story of how we ended up in Florida and why we decided to move there. We are so excited to finally be leaving our current home in Virginia and starting our new life in Florida.
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Hello, Classic Crew, and welcome to today's video where I'm going to be sharing a major life update.
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I am so excited to share with you guys, we've been keeping it under wraps for quite some time,
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that Jacob and I are moving. Now, what do I mean when I say moving?
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Because we just recently moved houses. So it was very funny because I saw a comment
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in one of my Instagram posts when I talked about us moving to this house that we're in now,
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and it said, why do you guys move like every six months? It was very ironic that you shared that
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when we were actually planning on moving from this house in six months. And there is a story behind
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that. There is a story about where we're going, but I will spoil it a little bit and tell you we
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are moving to Florida. So we are in Virginia now, and we are going to be moving to Florida. And
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hopefully, Florida is kind of our stopping point. It's where we end up. Will we be in the same house
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the entire time? Probably not. But the idea being, we are going to be in Florida, and we're going to
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be settling in Florida. So that's really exciting. But I just, I thought that was hilarious because I
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was thinking to myself when that person commented, you don't even know. So let's go back a little bit.
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Jacob and I have moved every year since we've gotten married. When we got married, Jacob had
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one year left in law school. So we were in Charlottesville, Virginia for a year while he finished
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up at UVA Law. And then we moved to Omaha, Nebraska for a year while Jacob tried out a job there. And
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then we moved back to Virginia, but this time we moved to Northern Virginia. And this was again
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for Jacob's work. So after moving here, when I got pregnant, we started talking about, okay,
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what do we want our next steps to be? And we came to the conclusion that Florida would be a really
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good place for us for a whole host of reasons, which I will get into sort of at the end of the video.
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So Jacob was looking for work in Florida. I can do my work from anywhere, so I'm very flexible.
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And at the same time that this was happening, our lease came up at the house that we were in.
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We had extended for six months, so we were there for a year and six months. And we weren't sure whether
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we were going to stay in that house, because if you remember, there was a big mice problem. And that mice
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problem was not being dealt with. And it was horrifying and very nerve wracking, given that
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we're having a newborn, a baby. And so we were debating whether or not to move, because we
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didn't know how long it would take for Jacob to find a job in Florida. We didn't know how long it
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would take for us to actually move to Florida. We just didn't know. So we decided to sign the lease
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lease for the house that we are currently in. And the next day, Jacob got an interview for a job in
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Florida. And both of us were like, okay, I mean, sure, this makes sense, right? Of course it has to
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happen that way. And we were trying to be realistic in saying, okay, we should act as if there is no job
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lined up for Florida and live our lives. So we signed the lease here. And the next day, Jacob
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got the interview. And then two weeks later, he got the job. We have a six month lease where we are
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now, which worked out perfectly. But that means we are going to be moving twice in six months. So we
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moved everything to this house, and then we're going to be moving everything to Florida. So that is
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the story of why we're moving twice in six months. Yes, we're going to be moving with a little baby,
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but hopefully everything will be sorted. We'll have a plan. I'm not moving before I give birth
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to this little one. That would just be way too stressful and also just unsafe. I want to be near
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my doctor during these last few weeks of pregnancy. And I want to make sure that we are able to actually
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make that transition well. So we will be here for a bit of the summertime, and then we will be moving
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to Florida, which I am so excited about. So as all this stuff has been happening, as we've been making
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these big life changes, one of the things that's had to happen is that Jacob had to retake the bar.
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So he has taken the bar. He is barred in DC, but Florida has its own bar exam, and Jacob had to
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retake the bar. Now, if you know what the bar exam is like, you know it is a nightmare to study for.
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I'm so proud of Jacob. He worked so hard. He was studying all day, every day. It was just so amazing,
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and he had a shortened schedule too because it all happened so quickly. But it's a lot. I mean,
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studying for the bar is no joke, and Jacob was doing a great job the last week before the test.
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I was really helping him out. We were just sitting down and focusing and working on all the stuff
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that he wanted to review, and that was a big undertaking on his part. So I'm so proud of him,
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and it was just, you know, it's really meaningful that he and I are on the same page about what we
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want so that when he is doing a project like that, which is just the worst, and no one wants to take
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the bar exam more than once. He feels like he's doing it for our family, and that's a really
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meaningful, beautiful thing. But this also explains why for our nursery, we didn't build the crib.
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We didn't buy a changing table or a dresser because it just didn't make sense for us to build all that
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stuff for only three months and then take it all down and then build it again when we get to Florida.
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So we are using a pack and play in the nursery as the changing table and as the bassinet. We also have
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a bassinet for our bedroom, so that's probably what we're going to use most of the time anyway,
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but that was kind of the way we had to work things out while we recognize that this is a little bit
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transitory here. Now, I'm not somebody who likes to make a home feel transitory ever, so I don't really
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do that, but for example, we really aren't putting much stuff on the walls here just because it doesn't
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make sense for us to hang up all these photos and then leave in six months. The next place we move,
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we will definitely put up photos, but we have all our furniture out, and because it was only next
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door, we didn't have to pack anything and then unpack anything, so it still feels really homey,
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which is actually a huge blessing, and I want to say I do not regret at all that we moved. This was
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a great move. We do not have to worry about mice. We do not have to worry about a lot of things. This house
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is so much better for us, and even though it's only for six months, six months is a really long time,
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so we are very grateful that we actually did sign that lease and that we ended up here. Okay, so why
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did we choose Florida? There are a lot of amazing reasons for us to move to Florida, so I'm really
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excited to share why. Let's start off with an obvious one. We're having a baby, and we have family down
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there. Jacob's parents are down there. My parents are down there. My brother is down there. It's just
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much better for us to have family around as we're starting our family, and we're really excited to be
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close to family as this is all happening. I think it's really hard to raise a family when you're not
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close to family, and I respect people who can do it, but that's not what we want. We want our kids to
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grow up knowing their grandparents and seeing their grandparents and seeing their cousins. That's
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really important to both of us, so that's one huge major reason. Another big reason is that there is a
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really, really wonderful Jewish community in Florida. There are a ton of Jewish communities in
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Florida, and that has been something we've been really lacking here in Northern Virginia, and we are
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not interested in moving to Maryland, which comes into play for the next reason, but Florida has the
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infrastructure for us to raise a Jewish family, and so I am so excited about being in a beautifully active
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Jewish community, being part of a synagogue, having Jewish day schools to send our children to. It's such
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a blessing that this is something we are able to do, and we're so excited about. So this community that
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I've been, you know, lacking here in Northern Virginia, and something I'm such a huge proponent of
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on my channel, we are actually following through on that and saying, you know, this really is that
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important. We are moving to a whole other state because it is so important for us to have a big Jewish
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community and that support system. Now, the last reason has to do with the fact that Florida is a
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free state. With COVID, I think we've all seen really the difference between states that are blue
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and states that are red and how they treat this, and I personally am not going to put my children
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into a situation where they're going to have to be masked constantly. I don't know how long that's
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going to take to go away. I want to be in a place where that's not a concern, and Florida, it's not
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a concern. You know, we can live as conservatives in Florida and absolutely fit in. So that is hugely
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important to both of us, and it's a wonderful reason to move to Florida, and I'm really, really
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excited about that part of it too. So that is why we are moving to Florida. That is our huge life update.
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That means you guys are going to be seeing me being a new mom, dealing with a move, and then
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adjusting to a whole new state, and I'm really excited about it. I think it's going to be really, really
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special, and I can't wait to share the whole journey with you guys, and I'm so excited I finally get to
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tell you. So that is it for today's video. Let me know in the comments what you guys think. Let me know if
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you're from Florida. Give me some suggestions. What are your guys' thoughts? I'd love to hear.
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