Just a question for ponderance. So we took a 5 day trip to Idaho to drop Mallory off at BYI Idaho (a bittersweet time for us all) and amidst the focus of our trip I was suprised to find my soul smiling.
I know you might not know what that means and in my attempt to manuever the english language, I'll try to explain. We have been gone from Idaho for over 10 years now and even longer from Rexburg. We seemed to have settled into our new AZ lives as though we had never left. We found economic success, conveniences we could never find in Idaho, and tons of social and community things to do. Normally this would be a recipe for happiness, one would think. However, now twelve years later, I think my soul was smiling for the first time since we left Rexburg.
We took a small family nostalgic tour around the town and as I listened to my kids talk about their memories at each spot, times they cherished, and emotions that came flooding to the top, it produced a lump in my throat. And without any other words to explain it, I felt my soul smiling.
We visited each of the houses we lived in, some were still there and some were not. We even found our first Hibbard house for sale for a meager $149K (we sold it for 49K). Tempting until we remembered it was a 4 bedroom house with ONE "small" bathroom..........
Nonetheless, "I'M IN", smiling soul and all.
Where's Bart when you need him?
