I've hit the snag of moving to Indiana:
Telling everyone (Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, hockey, soccer, neighbors, random people at school and church) we're leaving.
I didn't have this problem when we left Ohio a few years ago. We even lived there for almost 5 years. But Zach and the twins had just finished first grade and kindergarten respectively and I'm not exactly the type to have a million and two local friends on speed dial.
This is hard. The conflicting emotions are tough because I'm so excited to be moving to Indiana and then people are sad to see us go. Greg said it well, it takes a few years to be comfortable in an area and start to make new friends. We've just hit that mark and now we're leaving. (I feel for military families big time right now.)
I'm kinda bummed by the things we won't be doing. We won't be 3 hours from the ocean or New York City or on a bad traffic day, Washington DC. We're not going to Girl Scout day camp again and will be missing the family Webelo camping trip in July. Zach won't be moving on to peewee level with his hockey friends in the fall. The kids won't see the finished renovations of the school (they've been working on it since we moved here and will be done this summer). Even sadder, Kelly will never attend that school. Kindergarten registration is next week and we won't be signing up. I love, love this school and it makes me a bit misty eyed to be leaving. This is the time of year when everyone is making plans for the summer and next fall and we won't be doing any of that here.
I keep reminding myself of the great things: family and friends close by again, a new house, more reasonable cost of living, a cat and dog (that's all it took for Kelly to be won over). But I can now see why the kids' first reaction was sadness instead of excitement like mine was. I'm beginning to realize that even though I've always really wanted to move back, it means giving up everything I've grown to like about living here.
Bleh, I hate being wishy washy.
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