It is Dec 21, we are 10 days away from our departure to Costa Rica for language school where we will study Spanish for 4 months before moving to Bolivia.
Today Angela and Sam and Georgia said goodbye to their violin teacher. Ty spent his last day at pre-school and said goodbye to his teachers and friends. Last night we said goodbye to a dear friend, Katie Pennock. A week ago I said goodbye to my friend and co-worker of the last 9 years, Debbie Bretches. We are in the stage of final goodbyes and it is not easy. Leaving is not easy. Changing patterns that are engrained into our days is not easy...but it is invigorating.
The nights are cold here now. The lawn outside is usually frost-covered in the morning—and when I step out to breathe the cold on these days I feel a bit more awakened to the world, a bit more alive, my blood starts to flow. This is what I mean by invigorating.
