All good things must come to an end, or so the saying goes. SD Boy, his wife and my prospective grandbaby have been staying with us since college graduation in April. However, grad school starts next week for SD Boy...in Iowa, and that necessitates moving from here, to there.
So they loaded up DH's truck and pulled out of here for Utah, where all their worldly goods have been stored for these last few months. DH and The Girl will drive down Thursday night, pack everything into a moving van and they will all caravan out to the great, flat mid-west.
Now if you follow my blog, you will know that PB is on his church mission in Iowa. And in fact, he is stationed right now in the city where SD Boy will be living. AND the LDS congregation he's connected with meets in the same building as the congregation SD Boy and his wife (and my prospective grandbaby) will be in. (Remembering that LDS congregation are divided up geographically.)
Physical meetings between missionaries and families aren't usually allowed, but since SD Boy is actually moving into a place in that city to live, and probably can't avoid seeing PB in the halls at church, and since it is so close to the end of PB's mission time, the mission president has given permission for them all to have dinner together on Saturday night.
You might ask why I'm not going. Can't do it. Can't see the boy and leave the boy again. Don't want to weep all over him and distract him from that last month's efforts, and on top of it all leave another boy, his wife and my prospective grandbaby. Too hard. Just way too hard. I'm just concentrating on the fact that PB will be home a month from yesterday. One more month. That I can do.
I'm from Iowa originally! Great place! Cold winters though, although I guess you guys are all used to that! Good luck to them all!
Posted by: Jen M | July 31, 2013 at 04:58 AM
Goodbyes are hard. Hugs.
Posted by: JulieP | July 31, 2013 at 07:19 AM
I'm in your camp- wouldn't be able to do it either. One month is not that long to wait.
Posted by: Little Sis | July 31, 2013 at 07:42 AM
Awww, you can make it another month!
Posted by: Carolyn F | July 31, 2013 at 11:51 AM
One month? Really. Wow- that time flew right by... for me.
Good byes are hard. I'm with you.
Posted by: Andrea | July 31, 2013 at 11:19 PM
I couldn't do it either. But a month will fly by and he will be home. Where does he go after this ?
Posted by: Pam | August 01, 2013 at 07:20 AM
I was wondering - but totally understand. That would be oh so hard - specially since the Girl is going off to college soon too - just way to much leaving. Iowa is a wonderful place - and really not as flat as you have been lead to believe. It doesn't have the Rocky Mountains or even the Blue Ridge Mountains, but it does have rolling hills - just ask anyone who as bicycled across it on RAGBRI! Glad they can all meet for a meal! Hugs! And I have relatives in Norwalk, Des Moines, Palo, Lisbon, Anamosa, Monticello, and Oxford Junction - so if they need anything, just saying, I have family close. More hugs.
Posted by: Joyce | August 02, 2013 at 06:44 AM