Chapters.

Don't mind me while I think out loud.

Yesterday was our last Sunday at Kapaa 2nd Ward. It was also our Primary presentation. Cameron & I are the CTR5 teachers, and we really love our class! We have very special kids who make us laugh and bring something unique to our lessons. I'm going to miss seeing them each Sunday!

Yesterday, it also hit me that we really are moving. I'm sad to leave Kauai. Kauai is my home. The people here are my family. I've been so blessed to know and have so many wonderful women and men as my "calabash" Aunties, Uncles and Cousins! And it has been so special to see the love they have for my boys!  "We are Ohana. Oh yes, That's us!"

The past weekend has been very fulfilling for me. With the General Relief Society Meeting, and a wonderful Sacrament Meeting and Relief Society Lesson... life is good. I feel at peace and amazingly, I am not stressed out about this move. However, I feel like my "to do" list keeps getting longer, no matter how much I accomplish. Perhaps I just take on too much, but I have also been in some sort of denial that my life will be drastically changed very, very soon.

Soon we will have no home (hopefully only temporarily). Soon I wont hear the sqabbling between my siblings, or my sisters "big mouth". These are things I will, undoubtedly, miss. Soon we will be house-hunting. Soon it will be very very VERY cold. Soon, I will be around family and friends that I have dearly missed for the past year. Soon I will be meeting new people, in a new ward, in a new area. Soon, I will have to find new furniture and whatnot for our new "home". Soon I will have my own space to breathe and make mine (ours).

Soon, things will be very different. Again.

I went to breakfast with a dear friend this morning, and on the short drive I noticed the perfectly clear, blue sky. The East-side ocean was beautifully flat and colorful! Blues, Greens... hhmmmmmm.... Gorgeous. Absolutely Gorgeous. If I could take pictures with my mind - oh, the master pieces I would savor!  What a work of art Kauai is! *Sigh*. I hope we will be back soon.

I feel like I have connected with women I had not known before we moved her a year ago. What inspirational women my life is filled with - all over the world! I really feel so blessed to know you.

The "end" of this chapter is drawing ever nearer. Of course, we are not "ready to go" in the sense that misc boxes are yet to be sealed, stamped and mailed. The last load  of laundry needs to be done. The car needs to be dropped off. Boxes that now belong in my parents' attic have yet to be "finalized". Good-byes are not completed (nor will they ever be). But all-in-all, Kauai has been a fabulous chapter in our lives. I hope we will be back someday. But I am not holding my breath. This has honestly been a once-in-a-lifetime-experience. Perhaps, one day, I will share the many things we have learned, (on so many levels,) while being here. But that will have to wait. I do not think we have fully realized all the ways we have been blessed this past year.

Yes, we are really moving to Utah. Tomorrow, in fact. While many anticipated adventures lay in wait for us there - I am reluctant to end this chapter. I want to savor all I can in it's last few paragraphs until I board a plane that will take me to a much, much bigger island.

And start the next chapter.

 

(Thank You, Auntie Stella for the pictures! You're the best!)