Saying Goodbye

I'm on one of the most exciting adventures of my life. I get to move to a beautiful island,spend two years exploring, and having fun. However, when I wonder around my empty house, I get sad.

I have lived in California for most of my life, except for a five year period during my teenage years in AZ. Cal has been my home; I live an hour and half away from where I was born.

Over the last month, I have said goodbye to childhood Friends I've known since I was 6 years old. I have said goodbye to College friends at our ten year reunion. I have said goodbye to my Aunt, and Uncles. I have said goodbye to friends of the family that have known me since I was little. I have said goodbye to two of my favorite places on earth...Pacific Grove and the Sierra Mountains. I have been saying goodbye to dear Mama friends and their children that I have made since Robynn was born. Now, I'm saying goodbye to the house that Robynn changed from a baby to a toddler in. Soon it will be time to say goodbye to my parents and my sister. No matter how excited I am about moving to the Azores, I don't like having to say goodbye. I know I'll see everyone again, but not everyday, like I get to now. It's so very hard to say goodbye, even if it is only for awhile. I find I'm fighting back tears a lot these days.