Life is a Roller Coaster

We’re at the top of the hill and about ready to swoop down the track.  Which is better/worse, the anticipation or the actual “tummy tickler” feeling?

We are moving.  Soon.  My husband started a new job within his same company (he’s worked for them for 12 years) with their technology division in Denver.  We will be heading out there next week to look for housing and explore the area a bit.  Ryan will work in the office as well that week and the girls and I will do a bit of school in the hotel and explore our new city.

We have lived in St. Louis for almost 11 years.  I told Hannah that this season is called, “Bittersweet”.  St. Louis has been our home for a long time.  There will be some hard good-byes to invaluable friends who have meant so much to us.  God placed people in our lives who have helped form our ideals and convictions, whom we have shared life’s ups and downs – people we have “done life” with.  There will be some landmarks that we have taken for granted as ours that we won’t visit or frequent anymore (I was near tears this week when I drove by our doctor’s office/hospital where we have such great physicians and where Hannah was born).  I won’t be seeing my plants green up and turn beautiful once again this spring.

As for the Sweet – the mountains, the over-300-sunny-days-a-year that Denver boasts, a career opportunity for Ryan (which is important in this day and age).  We are all adventuresome and are looking forward to living near the mountains and getting to know our new area.  Ryan said, offhandedly, a couple of years ago, that if he were going to move anywhere, it would be Denver.

So, off we go, on this next adventure.  I am praying for my girls to see this and walk through it positively and courageously.  Hannah has already had a few tears over not seeing her drama production through.  I was sorry for her.  She had won a great part in it and was giving up something very important to her.  I’m not sure what her director said, but Hannah is at peace with it now.  I pray for more great opportunities – and great people in my children’s life in our next leg of our journey through this crazy thing called life.