Send a postcard. Something.

My son and his beautiful, fun-loving and ambitious bride are moving across the country.  I am going to miss them so…

Here’s the thing.  They live a little over an hour from us now and we rarely see them.  Well, rare might be a bit strong, but, we see them much less than we see the two girls.  I sort of “knew” it would be that way as I know we see the girls more than their in-laws do.  I’ve always believed that boys leave their mothers and girls just bring boys along.  I think that’s even biblical, right?  My son has always had one foot out the door but not until he met this wonderful girl did he get on the move.

So, she has accepted a position a half continent away and they’re off! I am excited for them as they plan their next adventure together.  Married two years and already a lot of miles in their captain’s log, they leave for the Pacific Northwest in just a few weeks.  Because she is ambitious and wants to learn as much as she can about her profession, she hopes to start her doctorate while she is out there, which, feasibility tells us, means they will stay put, perhaps, while she works on that AND continues her occupational therapy career in a school system.  That’s a good thing, too, as she will have the time to do so without the caseload she experienced in Cook County.   

I am a big fan of this couple, as are most everyone they meet.  They are open, friendly, giving, quirky, accepting at face-value people.  They can be ready for an experience at the drop of the hat and both love their families so much that they try to make every family event they can.  Sometimes they can’t, and that’s okay because it’s never that they didn’t feel it, it’s more like they have some opportunity to do something the rest of will never try, or see, or taste. Or it could be they have a new guest, a “couch surfer” coming in and they need to prepare for the arrival.  Look it up.  Couch surfing.  It’s real, and they are both users and providers of this service.

We will miss them being around, for sure.  The time we get to spend with them may be rare, and becoming more so, but, most of us, in small ways and not so small, want to BE them.  Carry on, good young people.  Live a grand life, a big life.  Just be sure to keep in touch.