Hindsight is 50/50

**Anna** (0:03)
Well, good morning. It's good morning where I am, but hope you're having a wonderful day. This is Anna. Welcome to Every Mom Needs a Friend. I feel like for today's intro, I just need to go ahead and be the grandma that I know I am in my heart and just talk about the weather for a second, because so many parts of at least the United States have been hit with such crazy weather. This hurricane has affected so many cities, especially in Florida, but working its way up and we are getting kind of like the output of that in terms of rain and just crazy wind and stuff like that. So hopefully you're safe wherever you are. But for us, I feel like I'm just sitting here in Christopher's office. It's a little side room in our house that almost has windows on every single wall. And to stare out on this little misty morning, recording this episode, thinking about the rain, hearing the rain, looking at the rain. And wow, it just makes it so moody and so happy. So I know that this is crazy weather. So really hopefully y'all are safe out there and praying for those cities that are affected and those houses and those people that are affected. I have friends of ours who have had a house that's completely leveled by trees and by rain. And I'm just praying for y'all out there. And this is like so first world problems and like not a big deal because if it gets moved, it gets moved. And that's is what it is. But I am, you know, recording this on a couple of days before it goes up on a Monday. And Christopher and I are supposed to go to this Noah Kahan concert. It's going to be on Sunday. So verdicts out if it actually happens. Or I was just chatting with my friend Macy and I was just like, I don't know what to wear if it's like completely going to be a downpour. Like it actually doesn't bother me. I was telling her, I'm like, I just love Noah Kahan so much. I don't mind rain or shine to listen to him. But I also am like, that does affect what outfit I wear. And so I think I need to just go like full rain boot and more like utilitarian rather than cute for this concert, which is totally fine. But I'm just stoked. I have seen friends go to his concerts over the past couple months, and I've just been trying to figure out which songs he's going to play. So I mean, if you're a Noah Kahan fan or you're not, at least just think about like your favorite artists right now getting to go to their concert and just hoping he plays every single song, especially like those kind of auxiliary songs that most people would not, like they're not posted online and that type of thing. They're not his popular songs, but they're the songs that Christopher and I like jammed to the most. So we are so excited. And it's going to be a little overnight date for me and Christopher just in Nashville. So having said, I just hope Noah Kahan hasn't rained out. But that's kind of like the least of the importance when it comes to this crazy weather. So let's go ahead and jump into today's episode so we can talk about what we're actually going to talk about today, which is this big question. It's kind of ethereal because obviously it's rhetorical and it's we did like we already know the end of the story. But the big question here for today is what if we didn't move? So let's jump into today's episode and we will chat about it. I do feel like I kind of did it backwards, didn't I, y'all? So let's do the big question. Warm up your hands, get them ready. One, two, three.
Okay, so I feel like especially on these episodes when it's just me, the big question can be kind of rhetorical in that today's is, what would have happened if we didn't move? And I guess I was kind of thinking like, what if we didn't move in the timing we did or ever? And this could be as big as what if we never originally moved? So we either stayed in our college town that Christopher and I first got married in and we stayed there. I think about that quite often. But then we did have a short stint in Louisville before then moving away to the couple of different cities we've lived in over the last nine years. So I keep thinking about what if we would have never moved ever? What if we would have stayed in whatever city we lived in at the time? So a little city in New Hampshire, big city of Dallas, big city of Seattle. There's this ever component of what if we just actually threw our roots down there deeper than we did?