We love where we live.
I know I complain sometimes that it's small, or old, or smelly, but we really do.
We love how close it is to school for Brian.
We love how easy it is for me to get to work.
We love that it's cheap. :)
But more than that, we love our ward and neighbors.
People are so friendly and willing to help out.
It's so nice to be surrounded by people in similar situations and stages of life.
We've made some great friends here.
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Now the downside.
It's a very transitory place.
New people moving in constantly, which makes it challenging to get to know everyone, especially when you're in Nursery every other week.
Old people (meaning couples who've been here for longer than 1 year) moving out at the end of each semester. And sometimes right in the middle when you don't expect it.
It's hard sometimes to be one of the few couples who've been here longer than 4 years.
It makes some of the younger couples look really young. Mostly, because they are.
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So what's the point of my rambling?
Today, I helped move out some of our really good friends. We packed and cleaned and loaded. And with the wonderful help of our Elders Quorum, it only took about 2 hours.
And then I kissed their adorable 1 year old son, and gave one of my best friends a hug and said goodbye.
And yes, I cried a little.
I know it's silly, because we'll stay friends and we will still find time to visit and see each other, but it's going to be different.
So we wish them well in their new adventure!
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And then we look around and see all the great people still left, and count ourselves lucky.
1 comment:
Ack! You keep making me cry!!! I obviously haven't been good at keeping up with my blog reading because this was like two weeks ago and I'm just barely reading it. But thank you for your help, but mostly thanks for being our friends. We love you guys and YES we will be playing and visiting and staying friends FOREVER. Yep, that's right, tell Brian that he is stuck being friends with the Preece's for eternity. ;)
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