Some Lasts....

This is our last full week in Weiser. It is crazy to think about. We are getting the moving truck next Wednesday and we are off to California Thursday morning. Lyndon's first Sunday is the 18th.

This week is the last week for my dance/tumbling classes. It is a little bittersweet. To be honest, with 2 babies in the house... Well, now 2 toddlers... The dance studio was a little overwhelming. I didn't feel like I could give 100% at the dance studio and at home. If I was concentrating on choreography and paperwork I was pushing my kids away and they weren't getting the attention they were craving. We were always on the run. Granted, the studio was only 7-8 minutes away from our house, but we were back and forth different times of the day trying to get things done. My classes started normally at 4 or 5 PM and that was the time Lyndon got off work. We would switch kids and cars around and then I wasn't able to spend time with them all together until 7:30 at night, which was bathtime and bedtime. That meant I had to somehow make a crockpot meal or a 30 minute healthy meal before 8 PM and rush them to sleep. Lyndon and I were able to finally talk at 9 or 10 PM while the kids were asleep. But, we were so exhausted that we usually didn't talk, we just fell asleep.

Lyndon was working 2 jobs. One full-time job Monday-Friday for a local garbage company and a part-time job at a free-Methodist church two towns away 2 days a week. He had Saturdays off. Unless it was a holiday weekend because the next Saturday he had to make up for garbage because the dump is closed on holiday Mondays. So, some weeks he didn't have a day off, which meant that I technically didn't have a "Day off" by having help with the kids. The past 4 years I haven't really seen my husband much. Pretty much in passing. We rarely had time together. This move will definitely bring us closer. Lyndon will have Friday's and Saturday's off and we are together all day Sunday anyway, we will have 3 days a week together. I'm excited about that.

This week is the last week for my nieces coming over Monday-Wednesday. Since Hannah was in Kindergarten, she has been walking to my house after school. In Kindergarten, she got off the bus a block away from my house and I would walk down and get her. When we moved, she was in 2nd grade and we live about 5 blocks from the elementary school. She was old enough that she would walk to my house alone. Susan (her mom) was trying to save money on daycare during the summer months, so I offered to watch Hannah and Hayden during the week when Cody, her husband, was working also. He had Thursdays and Fridays off. They come here everyday and Alden loves it. Alden's vocabulary has taken off because of having older kids to be around. I am going to miss those two girls dearly. This is one of the hardest things to leave, these two girls. I have seen them grow and mature everyday for the past few years. I bought them both little diamond necklaces to tell them I love them and gave them to them earlier this week.

Leaving my family is hard. Harder than words can describe. I never thought I would leave Weiser. I am a home body and a "Mommy and Daddy's" girl. I have been around family my whole life and we are very close-knit family. Lyndon has been with his family his whole life also. He moved to Boise (An hour away) for college but would come back on weekends and visit (And have his mom do his laundry). This is one of the biggest life changes for us.

I'm not really sure what to expect. I have never left. There are so many emotions going through me right now. I want to get there and get settled and get back going with our schedule and routine. I also don't want to go because it will be months before I see family again. It's time to look forward to the future and stop thinking of the "What-if's" Let's get this show on the road. We are going to start packing tomorrow. And we are leaving next week. Here we come future. I don't know what you have in store for us.... Let's see it.