Man, it seems like time flies. It feels like just yesterday that Jessica and I decided that we would move together to Arizona once her lease was up, in December of 2010. At the time, December seemed like a lifetime away. Now it's the end of September and time seems to speed up the closer we get to the end of the year. I'm so completely unprepared for a cross-country move that it seems a little silly that I'm even planning one. But I am, and I want this. I want to start a new page in my life and this is how I am going to do it. It's going to be so different. So incredibly different that anything I've ever done in the past. I lived on the OSU camps for 3 years, but I went home at least twice a month and I could literally go home whenever I felt like it. Gone are those days. I live at home right now, but our family is so busy that I see everyone once a week, at the most. Sometimes it's longer. I have a feeling I'm going to be doing a bit of crying when I leave. I am excited for a lot of reasons though, and not the least of which is getting a fresh new look with the weather. It has been unseasonably wet this September and I feel like I'm in the doldrums with all of these grey, rainy days that we are being punished with.
I'll miss so much here and I'm especially weary of leaving the little ones. I have a pretty good relationship with them now and I feel like whenever I come back they're going to have forgotten how we used to play and only think of me as that weird uncle they only see a couple of times a year. I know how I felt about those uncles when I was young, and I don't want that to happen to Julia and James, and especially little Henry. I didn't get a chance to know him.
Time grows short, the time to move is near. I just hope I can be as ready as possible when that day comes.
