So, I guess we should start from the beginning here, shouldn’t we? I guess this adventure all started to unravel in late Summer/early Fall 2014, when David got a LinkedIn message from a recruiter from Google. Yes, Google, like that giant company that runs the search engine, along with a zillion other super lucrative and successful side businesses. He had received several of these messages throughout the past year or so, and we had even considered, on two separate occasions, moving to Houston and Vermont (cannot tell you how glad we are to not be living there in this winter-from-hell). Neither of those opportunities turned out to be what we saw as our “next step” for various reasons. We had been trucking along with our happy little life in Round Rock, going to work at our jobs, coming home to our baby dog in our cute house that we had worked hard to make into our first home. Despite the fertility treatments that had been unsuccessful for going on two years, and the frustration and disappointment that came along with that (a whole other post for a later date), life was peachy keen. So, this message from the Google recruiter was not something out of the ordinary, except that this was actually a really big deal. And the kicker? The position was in New York City. GULP. And that part was pretty much non-negotiable. As in, we would have to move to NYC in order for him to take the position. DOUBLE GULP.

So, we casually talked about it, as he had his first phone screening with the recruiter. And we talked about it some more when she pushed him on to the next round of interviews. And then on to the next. And then it started to get really real.

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