Terry’s celebration was really nice…all our children and their mates and our three grandchildren came and ate and played games!

We also learned that the father of our Grandchildren has been selected to be the new principal at Craig, Colorado.

Craig is three hours away from us.  Do I laugh with joy or cry with sadness?

Bladen will be in the Seventh Grade next year–a year of huge changes for him.

No more just running across the field (they are heading home in this photo)to see what we are doing, or to get a snack, or to catch a ride with Grandpa.

No more randomness.

We will work hard to keep them close….as time permits we will travel there to be with them.  We will bring them home with us, if they want to come, and their new lives will let them.

It’s all too special to let slip away.  It is also selfish of us to ask them to not go.  We are very proud of Kelly, please understand that, it is the leaving that makes Terry and I sad.

Now our hope is that they will be able to return sometime in the future. I hope this isn’t being a selfish hope! We will work hard to leave it up to what is best for all of them.

Still…I do think you understand.

You also know that time has a way of making everything right.  My Momma would always say—‘everything works out for the best–if you will let it.’

So we will let it.

When our son was born, my parents also moved up by Craig, Colorado—they moved to Hayden.  Daddy had gotten a job with Colorado Ute (now called Tri-State).  So it is, with a touch of irony, that my youngest daughter and our son-in-law, and grandchildren are moving back.  Life really does have some odd little jogs and jags in it, doesn’t it?

 (Don’t forget you might have to remind of this—that life always works out for the best.)

Sigh,

Linda