The Short Trip Home

The trip home just got shorter.  I found out this week that I will be transfered to the Dallas office August 1, 2011.  Pretty crazy.  So in just a few short months I will no longer be a Virginia resident.

This as you can imagine brings up a large spectrum of feelings.  One of course is elation.  I can't wait to be home.  I am so tired of feeling left out and alone.  Everything family and friend related in Dallas is more difficult with me living up here.  I am the only family member going out as far as my cousins/aunts/uncles.... that doesn't live in Texas.  Of couse I am talking about my side of the family as Erich's family lives in South Carolina.

I've had my fun here and grown so much.  I understand the importance of friends a lot more.  My whole life I had a huge and close extended family.  We always just hang out with each other so I never understood why people had close friends and got together with them for holidays instead of family.  Now I get that so much more.  Also, I know how to make a friend and be a friend to those that don't have this type of family.

Any now to the sad part.  The friends that I have made here that I regard as famly.  I can barely stand to leave them.  Nancy has been one of my closest friends here since we sat next to each other as 1st year law students.  Well it actually started a little later than that, but I just couldn't get over the beautiful pictures she had on her computer of her and Mike's wedding on the beach.  Especially since Erich and I were about to get married on the beach.  She wasn't so sure she wanted to be my friend at first but God had other plans.  We were in the same classes, lived in the same building and ended up in the same small group at church.  She is actually the one who invited me to McLean's Frontline service first.  She handed me a flyer in class.  Now we have been through so much together, law school just to start, moving oodles of times for both of us, many season of American Idol, the pregnancy and birth of her beautiful son, pet passings, family passings, and so much more.  I don't know where I would be without her and I am so sad I won't be able to see her all the time.

There are also countless other friends, as well as my church, my work (yes even though I complain about it), our small group friends, our house, neighborhood, the memories, ahhhh there is just so much.  I do see this as a great thing, but there will always be growing pains. 

We will have been here for almost exactly 5 years.  We have built a life here so I am very torn.  I will miss my life here, but I am excited to start again in Dallas and rebuild my old friendships as well as make new ones.