Currier vs Career

   I have a Currier life, not a career life.  Both are pronounced the same, but have vastly different meanings.  I think I know what a career life is, one that centers around your chosen profession.  So what is a Currier life?  Well it's the profession that more or less happened to me, it was not a conscious choice.  I am a professional mover and packer.  I pack and move our four bedrooms about every two years. I can have everything boxed, moved, unpacked and feeling like a home in a week or less.  That's the easy stuff, the possessions.  I've also become a professional friend finder.  I have such a short time to find friends.  I didn't realize how hard that can be.  Sanity is founds in your friends.  The way Brad works, the hours he puts in doesn't leave much time for family.  He makes the best of the time he is off, but those days can be few and far between.  My children and I need friends, it's just a fact of life.
     An issue that comes up with every move is finding an emergency contact.  It causes me anxiety every move, every state, every city.  What if the unthinkable happens to Brad and I?  Who will be called to watch my kids until my parents can get here?  An emergency contact usually takes a couple months to find.
    As a professional friend finder I have a few theories that have held true so far.  Other transplants are easier to make friends with than those who have lived in the area all of their lives.   Any one who has had at least one major move is more open to outsiders and new people.  God will decide and provide at least one life long good friend in each new place.   I've made some of the best friends a girl could have in each state, and I still talk to all of them almost daily.  Those friends just happened to have moved to the area at almost the same time we did.  Mom's groups are a God send.  Being the new girl and being out going is exhausting.  There is nothing as humbling as trying to meet people and make connections.
     My "Currier"  I guess can be summed up as trying to make ever changing living conditions into a stable, comforting home for my kids and husband.  Packing, finding movers, finding homes, scouting out new school districts, exploring, meeting new people, finding new doctors, dentists, and pediatricians, acclimating, praying, pleading, playing and praising-these are all just part of the job and what makes up my Currier Life.