Another Good-Bye

This past two weeks I received the sad news that two of my dear friends Sariah and DeEtte are going to be moving away.  DeEtte and her husband Art are going to be heading up to Naramata to live in a beautiful home on the beach.  There is a big guest house on the property that already has our name on it!  Sariah and her gang are heading out to Mission to live in a wonderful house in the Silverdale area.  Living in the middle of Vancouver has meant that I have spent the past 30 or so years saying good-bye to people.   It's always comes with an awkward love/hate roller coaster ride.  You are so excited for them to have a new home, a new job, a new adventure and even a new life.  Quietly,  you are also aching that they will not be down the road, at church on Sunday, someone to wave to at Stake Conference, over for dinner, or just available for when you want to go out for lunch...

A Little Lesson:

I am grateful for all the inventions that make saying good-bye a little less painful - phone, email, internet, blogging, digital camera's and of course the obvious one...the car!  Can you say... R o a d  T r i p s !