What a Week!

This week was an incredible, tiring, and rewarding week.  No lessons or observations for the blog today.  Just looking back and looking forward. 

It rained from Tuesday through Friday.  As I tried to make the camper look like new, I fought the elements time and time again.  With heaving rains falling, along with the leaves, it seemed as though I cleaned the camper everyday from Tuesday to Friday.  I replaced the two roof vents, three lights, drained the lines, and washed the camper three times.  When I was done with the camper, I had to clean the campsite that I had occupied for 3 1/2 years.  As I pulled away from the campground and marina on Thursday morning, it was a bittersweet feeling.  I am grateful for my time at Guist Creek and I am grateful to be moving on.

The letters and luncheon and goodbyes were emotional this week.  I am thankful for the opportunity to have worked with the people in Kentucky.  In some way, each and every team member enriched my life.  I also got to see life from a different perspective at times which allowed me to grow as a person.  I will always be grateful for the opportunity, the people, and my time spent in Kentucky.

I also realized, through simple timing, that my life is blessed and my move and career change are the right things to do at this point in my life.  When I purchased my camper, I bought it on a Saturday and towed it to Kentucky the next day.  This week, I pulled the camper back from Kentucky on Thursday night and sold at 10:00 a.m the next day.  No storing, no advertising, no wondering about what to do when my family moves to Chicago on June 1st of next year.  It simply was a blessing to sell the camper with such incredible timing.  I will miss the camper, or more specifically, the time that I was able to spend alone in the camper.  But again, the timing was perfect to sell it.  Thank you God for your blessings!

Tonight I walked out on the field with my son and wife for Senior Night at the football game.  Josh ran his last cross country race on Thursday of this week and had his best cross country season ever.  It was a good way to end his XC career and I was a very proud dad walking the field with him as he escorted his mother.

So tonight as I write this blog, I am sore and tired and relieved.  So, I am going to sleep tomorrow morning until I wake up.  No alarms, no worries, no commitments. 

And I will sleep well.