Tomorrow is our last day in our house for a while. We have a great house and Buddy (our basset hound) sitter that will be living in and taking care of our home and dog. This is a great blessing because we did not have to pack up everything and put it in storage. This will also allow Tucker to come home from University during long weekends.

This week has been a lot of "lasts". Our last worship service at FUMC, our last visit with my parents, Abi's last day at school, last FYI (a Wednesday evening program at church), last bible study with our small group, last staff meetings, and tomorrow will be my last coffee with the "Java Jewels". The Java Jewels have been meeting for over 5 years now. We started our coffee group shortly after I moved to Vancouver from Richmond, Virginia. I had just met our neighbor Julie and we decided that our social needs and girl time would not be met in our immediate neighborhood. Julie had also just moved to Vancouver so we were desperate to make new friends. Through a mutual friend of mine we found another "new to Vancouver" family and we decided to meet for coffee. That coffee date turned into a weekly coffee meeting and has grown in numbers. We have had to say good bye to several friends that have move away and some that have been sucked into the black hole called full time employment. I am going to miss this group of wonderful friends. We have laughed, cried, and prayed together, solved many world problems, trained and power walked the Portland Marathon, and supported one of our own through the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Most of us are also in the trenches of parenting teenagers and it is so good to laugh and escape the "mom" title for a few minutes each week. I am so blessed to have these smart, funny, talented, wise women in my life.