Today is Friday. This weekend we are running some errands, visiting a few friends, and tying up loose ends. Tuesday the movers arrive and the show begins. By Friday, we will be in our new (but temporary) home in Moses Lake.
Talk about out with the old and in with the new.
That is one thing I know for sure: this really is a TOTALLY NEW year. A new home, new school for Ellie, new job for Dan, new town (I've never actually lived in a small town...should be interesting!) and new friends, neighbors, etc.
But for right now, I am waiting. I feel very busy in this holding pattern we have maintained for the last two months and yet there is really nothing I can do for the next few days. I definitely feel like I am in the calm before the storm; a lot like how I felt before each of our daughters were born. I know I should be taking advantage of this time and doing something to be more "ready" and yet, I can only sit and wait.
This will be a difficult, wonderful, transitional, exciting, full of possibility kind of a new year. It will be lonely at first, but hopefully will soon fill in with new friends and life happenings. Otherwise, I don't know what to expect. Will we stay in Moses Lake? Move on to Spokane? Sell our Buckley home and buy another in Eastern Washington or continue to rent for awhile? Will God bless us with another baby or not? Will I go back to work? It's funny how everyone is asking me all these questions and I really have no answer, although I feel like I am expected to know something. If I have learned anything in these past few months (and really, it's a lesson I continue to learn over and over again) it is that God's plan always supersedes my own, and that I must have faith that everything will unfold exactly as it should (and always has).
As the new year approaches, I know we are all contemplating resolutions. I don't know that I have resolutions per say, but I have three quotes/prayers/words of wisdom that I feel will guide me through 2012. I am at the very least vowing to say them over and over again in my mind and heart. Here they are:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Amen
Bloom where you are planted.
Be positive.
It is my hope that my words will become my thoughts and my thoughts will become my action and my life will be better for it. I know I have lots of room for improvement!
So if you are "of the old" and we are soon moving away from you, then please know that you have been very special in our lives and we greatly appreciate how you have supported and shaped our family and life. If you are "of the new" and we are soon moving toward you, then to you I say "Hello!" and we are excited to begin a new phase of life with you in it. And to all our family and friends, old and new, we may be in a small rental home but the sun shines in Moses Lake and our door is open! :) We hope to see all of you in 2012!
Happy New Year!
