What We've Been Doing This Summer: Saying Goodbye

It hasn't been all giggles around here this summer. Yesterday Scott, Deb, Aidan, and Mac packed up everything they own into this moving truck and rolled three hours eastward.


I am glad that they have this chance to spend a year in a great city as Scott powers through his last year of schooling (for a while, at least), but they will be deeply missed. The church community we established together is looking for a new pastor, but can't replace the family as a whole.

And everyone in our house will feel their absence ... already today I realized that we can't call on them to help out in a pinch, or do the same for them. Maren and Malcolm had their brave faces on as they said their goodbyes, but both dissolved into tears the second we pulled away. I think this will be especially hard for Maren since she and Aidan have been in the same class for six years already, and grew up together. And I mean that literally, since we lived on the same block for the first three years of their lives! The title of this post isn't entirely truthful, though. It really is "See you later" rather than "Goodbye," a certainty that gives the kids a lot of comfort.