No, I'm not talking about a new season such as Spring, Summer, Winter or Fall or even a holiday season, such as Thanksgiving or Christmas, which are upon us. I'm referring to the seasons of our life.
As of yesterday, DH and I are now beginning a new season of our life - retirement. If he doesn't want to, he no longer has to get up to go to work. I still do, for awhile anyway, but that's okay. That's my choice.
Now that DH is officially retired, it means a HUGE change in our life because we will be preparing to move to TN. We found a house in an area that we really love and feel that is where God is leading us. So, we have lots of work ahead of us.....preparing our current home to put up for sale, doing all the stuff that goes along with selling a home, moving, uppacking and setting up a new household.
The hardest part will be saying goodbye to family and friends. Though I know we will be back to visit and some of them will come visit us, it's just the idea that we won't all be close by any more. In thinking about it, though, this period of time is a better time for such a move than years ago before e-mail, cell phones, webcams and IMing!! It's much easier to keep in touch instanteously these days. And, as one of my dearest friends, Marian, said, "we can still talk on the phone" (which is what she prefers).
In researching my family history, I discovered a letter from one of my gg grandmother's in which she talked about moving from PA to Ohio in the pioneer days. Now, that must have been hard because back then you never knew if you would ever see your family or friends again and in most cases, you didn't. If letters could be sent, it took forever. Once you said, "goodbye", it meant "goodbye".
On the other hand, it's exciting and fun to think of a new "beginning", a new season, new adventures, new people to meet, new surroundings to explore....some which will be good and some which may not be.
Gotta run! Meeting DD, Dawn. She's teaching a stamping class today and I'm her helper and a pupil!! I'm looking forward to it. I will be learning new stamping techniques and spending time with her. Have to take advantage of that sort of thing now (which is a topic to be blogged another day).
God bless,
Linda
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Okay, so i cried when i read this! Guess i can relate to all you are going through (well, not the retirement part)... this bittersweet experience of going and coming, of leaving one place to venture to someplace new, of making new friends but keeping the old (one is silver and the other is gold! LOL!). love, erica
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