Cheaper than Therapy

Here goes. I've decided to blog about all the emotions I am experiencing as part of our upcoming move. I will share what worries me, what excites me, and what makes me sad. Yesterday some of the initial grief hit me, and I know there is a lot to come. Too much to handle on my own for sure. I am hoping that sharing it on here will help me get it out, acknowledge it, and find a little peace and the ability to move through it in a forward direction.

I have decided to call the posts that list all that I am sad to leave behind or other worries about moving away from my church, family, and community, "A Million Little Things," because it seems like there are so many tiny things that I must leave. They will be stream-of- consciousness thoughts and will be in no particular order whatsoever.

I will call the posts where I discuss what I look forward to in El Paso and at St. Mark's, "31 and Counting." I have no idea if I will be able to think of 31 things that I am excited about, but it's the number that jumped into my head, so I will shoot for it. I have every intention of finding a million little things to love about St. Mark's and El Paso before we leave in a decade or so, but for now my heart is full of the million things about Morning Star and Las Cruces, so shooting for 31 seems pretty big to me.