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We Did Something Crazy

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 A little over three weeks ago, we packed up a moving truck and closed the door to our New York house for the last time. We spent the night in a hotel and then next morning, my husband dropped me and the two younger kids off at the airport, while he and our oldest drove the truck across the country to our new home...Arizona! They're a little out of order, but the bottom one is our 5am drive to the airport. Next is takeoff, holding her brother's hand because she couldn't stop crying (it was two flights and a quick layover. She was done.) Then seeing Arizona for the first time. (Yes, we moved without ever having been here before.) We got to Phoenix and my husband had rented us a car. A fancy car.  I'd never driven anything so nice before. We'd given our car away in NY and my husband asked me to buy a new one when I got here. I've never bought a car on my own, but Carmax really made it simple. (Being there for three hours with a three year old was anything but simp