Written by Ordinary Extra – June 1, 2023. Another Goodbye.
When it comes right down to it, no, it doesn’t get easier. We hugged and said our goodbyes. He got in the car to leave and we talked through the open window.
Then, he got out of the car and hugged again. We said more goodbyes. Another goodbye. He had to leave, we knew that. It was an ordinary extra moment and nobody wanted it to end. We talked some more through the open window. Finally, I said, “Okay, get out of here or we’ll be at this all day. You go do what you have to do.”
The car backed into our turnaround area. As he pulled forward with the other window down, I said, “I gotta take a picture for Mom”. He pulled forward and toward the chicken pen. He waved a wave, another goodbye, this one for Mom.
Amaris and I with our three youngest. This was just before the twins got on the bus for school. 90 minutes later, this older brother was gone.
The car, our son, and lots of his stuff were all headed for Austin, TX via Chagrin Falls and Athens, OH. A new chapter in the great book of our lives. So many stories each deserving their own title but somehow melded together by the grace of God. We are truly blessed. We are the fortunate ones.
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…” Ecclesiastes 3:1.
Waving goodbye one last time, for now. He is on his way to start a career following graduation from college. Although, I did hear him loudly leave a special message for the chickens as he passed the coop.
We live in an age where comparisons are being made 24/7 whether we know it or not. Social media, TV, Internet ads, and many more outlets bombard us all with image. Image as in, this is how the perfect product, or the perfect moment, or even any product in the perfect setting, can make life, well, pretty near perfect.
You know what I am talking about. Pictures of how awesome other people’s life is, at least that is how it is made to look. At some level we all get caught up in the “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality. And we think out loud or to ourselves, “Well, my yard, my vacation, my this, or our that doesn’t like nearly as good as theirs”.
So, I am here to spread some ordinary extra moments. These are things that happen in an average day in my little world. Some might resonate, some may not. But the point is, be happy and thankful for what you do have. And sometimes that might just be the ability to think, to breathe, to work, to love, to feel, and so on. There is beauty all around us.
Just an ordinary day with an ordinary extra moment, or two, mixed in.
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Xoxo love this and already miss Seb