We’ve been living it up in our few weeks of small-town Colorado summer!
We did the free library programs and crafts; we did movies; we did backyard slip-n-sliding; we wrung our friends dry in playdates and dinner dates and bike dates; we museumed and pooled and ice creamed.
Even though our terribly dry year(s) fostered an especially close and bad wildfire – keeping us sequestered in the house with windows shuttered – we fell in with our community donating and firefighter-praising and rain dancing.
And those weeks went quickly; now our Durango summer is in the past! We started a leaving-town-countdown at 179 days (which many people found excessive), and all of a sudden it’s at 0! The house is emptier and cleaner than we have ever seen it. Our car is stuffed with backpacks, mostly containing leftover pantry items and cleaning supplies for my parents and sister. And the traditional Leyden Street start line has been crossed!
What are my profound reflections on this, you ask? Well, we love our desert mountain town. We love our little house (which is now so different from the house we bought). We love our friends and relatives whom we see with frequency and ease. We love our fantastically supportive neighbors.
And we will miss all these things and all these people. Yes, we will!
But now we look ahead to adventures we can’t imagine and friends whose language we don’t yet understand and memory-making as a close family unit.
Not so profound. But definitely exciting! Stay tuned…
Magrilless 
And off they go ….
What an exciting year you have ahead of you! I’m very envious! Love to you all!
I think you’ll find it is just as profound.