A Weekend with Family

I am positively tingling with excitement for the coming weekend. Yes, we’re moving in our new house, but more importantly we have friends and family coming to help us. I can’t wait to see my in-laws, brother and sister-in-law and our local cousins. My parents arrived for their winter stay in Nashville yesterday. I haven’t seen them since Thanksgiving and it was surreal to be out to lunch with them today, discussing my son’s birthday cake and ohhing over the thought of making it blueberry flavored. 

I will be forever, EVER grateful that I have parents with the willingness and means to travel to their daughters. They get out to see my sister in LA fairly often and this is their fourth trip to Nashville since we moved. They’re staying 6 weeks or so, in a furnished apartment close to us. My in-laws are the same way- they rearrange their schedules to get out to see us as often as we get to North Carolina. Brian’s career necessitates our location, unlike most of his families’, who live in their hometown. I’ve written about this before, that we don’t have option to pick up and move to Charlotte. This is common to all of our friends from Milwaukee. The friends that we have living in Virginia and California? Would probably prefer to be in the Midwest, closer to their families. But we’ve worked hard for these degrees and the jobs that follow. So again, I am so grateful that our families will come to us. Weekends like these are precious and I plan to soak up every second of family goodness. I can’t wait to see Caleb’s face when he sees his Nanas and Grandpa and Papaw and Aunts and Uncles. Priceless.