Hard to Say Goodbye

Well, I'm not sure where to begin with this one. But a very special family is now settling into their new home 200 miles away.... There are a zillion memories I could share from the awkward first moments at a condo in Traverse City to camping while pregnant with nothing but pit toilets to risking our lives in an ice storm outside Chicago for a night out without kids! The last decade of our lives have been spent sharing moments like these with good friends, the kind that you don't bother putting away the laundry when they drop by. The kind that know your failures and mistakes but forgive and encourage. The kind that suddenly stop being friends and suddenly become an extended part of your family. There's a sappy song by Michael W. Smith called "Friends," and the last line of the chorus says, "a lifetime is not too long to live as friends." And 200 miles is not too far to make that happen.....