Well, the horrible day has finally arrived!

Our youngest daughter, our son-in-law, and the three kiddos will be loaded up and heading out soon.

All of us will have a load …Misty in the van, Kelly in his pick-up truck, and Terry and I with the horse trailer.  We need to be in Craig, Colorado by noon!  At 2:00 p.m. the kids pick up the keys to their new house.  After that we unload.

Linkin will be coming back with us for three weeks.  Blade is still trying to decide if he wants to come spend a week with us or not.  He is a 7th grader now…I hope he comes —one week won’t hurt anything since school doesn’t start (and FOOTBALL practice) until the last week of August.  Tallin will come the third week of August since Mom-mom will be at work full-time.

As you can see it isn’t the LAST time we will see the kids, but it is the time of the move. They will be back to get some of the stuff they couldn’t or didn’t want to pack this time (like the animals…a rabbit, two guinea pigs, two cats, a fish tank…and the summer yard care stuff.  We will do kid shuffles off and on  for the three weeks.  Linkin will stay the whole time as she is responsible for all the pets left behind.

Kelly really will be glad to get his family settled, he has been very busy all summer with his new job as Principal of Moffat County High School.  Misty was hired as the physical education Teacher at Sunset Elementary, the two little girls will go to the same school where their Momma teaches.  Blade, of course, will be in the Middle School.

Life changes!

Always.

All we can do is change with things and move forward.  I am now walking in my Momma’s and Daddy’s shoes since they didn’t get to have their grandchildren close. They worked at keeping them in their lives anyway.  Today my adult children have very wonderful memories of their time with my parents.  I have an excellent example to know how to achieve this closeness.

Before we head out I leave you with a fence going up Brick Yard Hill—the road that goes to the top of California Mesa…this was once a small farm, but not anymore.  The young couple that purchased a few acres kept the feel of the farm with this wooden fence.

Your friend who is now entering a new chapter in life,

Linda