Our little family has had a rough year:
Moving
'wait-list homelessness' at the Navylodge
Homeschool (yes, it's rough)
and way too many goodbyes - some more temporal than others.
But the one constant throughout all of this has been our extended o'hana, the Lallatin's.
There are kids in my life that I love like my own. People in my life whom I love like my own blood. And I have the Dawg's growth charts on my hallway wall to prove it.
First meeting these guys years ago in Guam - they moved to Hawaii within a week of our arrival. They were our instant comfort zone!
Birthdays, holidays, trains and Tara's dinners!
Tara was the one who unpacked my onebumkitchen - and enjoyed it!
Cody endured a week with Mollydog - because they knew there was no other option for Garrett.
Tara was the one who drove over to my house in the middle of the night just to give me a hug within the first moments of me waking her up to tell her my mom had just died.
I know for the next while there will be tears mixed with laughter; (highschool)musical mixed with memory and joy mixed with heartache.
It's time to adjust.
4 comments:
((((Hugs)))
I just read this. You're making me cry! It's going to be so hard to say goodbye!
We are getting ready to say goodbye also! Not to the Lallatins but...it is unbelievabley hard! Thank heaven for eternal friendship!
AmyMorrison: I was just thinking about you today and how you're going to move so soon after you unpacked. I'm sure you're ready to get back to the mainland yet will miss the island life. Consider yourself lucky since it was prolonged a year. :-) I wish we were closer to you when you get to CO but I'd still love to come for a visit. I used to live there once upon a time...
April 30, 2010 at 2:19pm
Chelle: GOOD LUCK WITH THE MOVE!!!
May 1, 2010 at 8:55am
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