Our Moving Sale was a huge success! Thanks to all who came and so eagerly “adopted” the things that helped make our house a home.  I hope they do the same for you 🙂  It was so great to see everyone and to put my things into such caring hands.  I will so miss this community of wonderful friends and neighbors.  It feels great to symbolically leave a little of me with each of you.  Thank you!

This morning the reality of how quickly the next three weeks will go is beginning to hit me.  So many people still to see and say goodbye to.  So many details to wrap up.  Dozens of lists to accomplish before the packers come.  I find my heart in that weird place between sentimentality and practicality.

My prayer is that in the frenetic pace of the next few weeks that I will always put people before process.  That I won’t get so caught up in the “have to’s” that I lose sight of the “need to’s”.  And that God will give me the strength to do both well.

If you are available for a coffee date, lunch or just a little time on my couch, please give me a call.  I would love one more sweet conversation and the chance to give you a hearty goodbye hug.

And if you’re not available, it’s okay.  Life is crazy and goodbye is never really goodbye.  It’s more like “see you soon”.  There will always be a spare bedroom in our new home, a place to come and visit and pick up right where we left off.  I may be leaving, but in reality, I’m not going anywhere. 🙂

Thank you, Parker, for being such a place of rejuvenation and rest.  You have allowed me to try new wings and fly a little.  I will take your hospitality, generosity and lessons with me as we begin this new adventure.  And while a number of you will have part of my home with you after yesterday’s sale, all of you will have a part of my heart.