Spring Changes

My school is on Spring Break this week, and it has been wonderful. We all needed a break. The kids were becoming rowdy, and I was getting impatient. The weather has been fabulous the last few days. I love spring. Everything is just fresh and new, and I get tired of wearing bulky, heavy clothes. Give me sandals and sleeveless shirts anytime. I have to say though, by the time the weather starts cooling down, I will be just as happy then. God knew what He was doing making the different seasons. If the weather was always the same, we (at least I) would lose our minds. There is probably a lesson in there about how change is a good thing, we just have to adapt to it. Changes have always been hard on me whether they seemed good or bad. Though I admit they are much easier than they used to be. Austin has helped me with that. We signed the papers to sell our house last Wednesday, and the check is in the mail. Now we can finally start looking for a place of our own again. I love my family, but it is really hard to live in crowded quarters when you're used to having your own space. We are grateful though, because it could've taken a year or more for the house to sell, and it's only been 3 months. I will miss our house though. There are things about the coast I was learning to love. I still have friends down there, that I will rarely get to see, and that's sad. Thank goodness for email. I'm better about that then sending letters. It was hard to move down there, but I think it was the best thing that could've happened for us. We got married, and then immediatley were on our own, in a new town, with new jobs, where we didn't know anybody, and had to rely on each other for everything. It was fabulous!! We always missed our friends and family down there, and we loved it when anyone came to visit. At the same time, I miss having weekends where I don't see anyone but Austin. Of course, we'll get some of those back, when we have a place of our own to live again. I'm grateful to be close to our friends and family again. We have been able to really hang out with people, and spend time with them, instead of just quick "Hellos" we're leaving tomorrow. We've been able to hang out with couples and with friends one on one, and we really missed that down there. We had a few friends on the coast, and we still talk to them, but it was different. It's been good to be back home. We've met knew people here and now we're making a new groove for ourselves. We didn't want to go back to the old one. To sum up, change has been very good to me. Not always easy, but good.