Going Back to Texas!

     During Sarah's move to North Carolina in 2014, I was thinking about when we moved from Texas to Georgia in 1990. Sarah was six years old and she was very upset. She insisted that she would move back to Texas the first chance that she got! – and Sarah felt that way for a couple of years. Then Texas became a faded memory, and if you ask her now, Georgia has always been home.

     But back when we left Texas – golly Sarah was one vocal kid about not wanting to move!

   

Virginia and Aunt 'Manda

 On her first morning in Chapel Hill, Sarah's daughter, Virginia, who was four, was feeling very sad, and she did not want to be there. Aunt Manda started talking to her – Amanda was a month shy of her fourth birthday when we moved to Georgia, and although she was more soft spoken than her sister, Amanda was not thrilled with being uprooted and moved out of state either. She talked with Virginia for quite a while – two kindred spirits with the same experience and same feelings. Soon V had perked up a bit.

     I told Virginia that when I am sad, I try to think of someone I could call on the phone – someone I can make happier with some conversation – then Sarah and John called John's Mom and Virginia got to have face time with her.

     Thinking back to 1990 once again and those first days living in Georgia – the girls' dad went to work every morning, and Sarah went to school – Amanda was at home with me – it was Amanda helping me with the unpacking this time. And what a joy she was – making me happy with her conversation, our own face time!

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