Life is full of change.....

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott



There has always been change.  We can perceive this as good or as bad.  Welcome or unwelcome, change happens.   My 2014 has been full of change.   Lots of BIG changes and some little changes.


1.  Move from Albany, MO to Charles City, IA = BIG change.   With this change came the obvious changes of new home, new job, new friends, new schools, new teams, new teammates, and new routines.

2.  The death of our beloved Sammie.

3.  Loss of new job  (totally unexpected change...sometimes the hardest kind!)

4.  New school year!

•      This has been the freshest in my mind.  We have been preparing for this moment when my baby boy moves up to the middle school all summer.  He met this new challenge head on and was prepared!   The in a new town playing baseball and throwing discs at the local disc golf course with new friends helped him to adjust!  We all need those friends.  The Beatles knew what they were singing about!  
•       My precocious daughter has entered 1st grade.  She too is prepared.  She was able to make some new friends over the past school year, but her age limited the growth of those friendships.  She pines for her good friends and the known friends of Albany.  She had a history with them and was comfortable. Sometimes change isn't comfortable, she gets that now. There has been some tears with missing the  familiar, but she too is adjusting very well!  First grade is bound to help her with that.  How could it not?  She is such a social butterfly!

Yep, these changes have taken up time.  They have been stressful and uncomfortable at times.  I expected that, but thank goodness I can not tell the future to see what it will hold.  We have to take life as it comes. I will take it with a smile, a few good friends (those I have known a short time and those I have known a long time) and of course an ice cold beer!  

CHEERS!