This Summer

We have been privileged to relax and play at our new home. After two years in a rental we are so happy to be back on a little farm again. Everyone feels more relaxed and more like ourselves again. When we left our previous home and headed out here, we didn't know how our own losses would help us help our new children. We had the privilege of coming here together. They will not come with their parents. While our experience has only given us the smallest view of their loss, I hope to never forget the stabbing ache in our hearts when we had to leave a place we so dearly loved. As it is, I feel all of our hearts straddle two worlds. One with a house that has not sold...a symbol of the hearts that have not let it go. The other, a tiny priceless gem we never would have considered in previous times, simply because the price was so low we would have missed it on a computer search! I love the personal growth these hard economic times have brought! Perhaps I wouldn't have known that they don't have to get over it. We aren't over it, but we all agree we are exactly where we need to be. And we are so happy! Now if I could just get myself to mean it when I pray for our other farm to sell!