Today we leave to go towards Kansas

WEll today is a fun day!  Phil, Aimee and I head out to Boise.  The first leg of our journey towards Kansas.  I can only really remember being in Kansas just brief drive thru's on the freeway, so to "actually" be there will be exciting!  Kansas is Aimee's home, it will be fun to see and meet her family, see the church Phil will be working at and go see NTS, the seminary where Phil will go in two years.  

So this is one of those days that we know come one day and yet you are never really sure how it will go or how you will feel.  Well on Sunday our Pastor played this song by Kenny Chesney, "There goes my Life"

The first part of the song is about regret and wanting to change things, this is not how I have ever felt, I loved the day the kids were born and have loved every minute since.  But as the child in the song grows up, his heart changes and the song becomes more about the child being his life, and that made tears run down my face, " when he put her in the car all packed with her stuff, she was excited for her new life, and he said; "there goes my life, he had realized how much he had grown to love her and how much she had become his life.  Well that part of the song hit me and I feel today that a new mile stone approaches me, as phil heads on to Kansas to work and to start a new phase of his life, as his mom, I feel" there goes my life" I have poured in a wonderful way into my kids lives, as I have chosen them over a career (best decision of my life!) and I am excited to see this new phase, not necessairly sad, but they have been my life and now it is changing to a new milestone with Phil working in Kansas this summer and then both Phil and Amanda at NNU in August.  So much will be different for me....but a good different, one I am working on being prepared for, but don't quite feel I am there yet.  I will be....I am working on it! I love our kids, they are amazing people!

I am completely excited for the plan God has placed before them and how their hearts have followed this!

It has been my prayer their whole life! So now they are no their way....I pray even more, just a bit different!

So Bill and I are heading towards a new path, and we are ready to see what it has to offer!