When you awaken at 5 a.m. to emails from your hubby of post reports and housing questionnaires it resets the turning wheels. Those wheels of time start rolling, the wheels that tell you to pack a bag and dream of new terrain. It is the expat blessed curse. Life is a cycle of pack outs and post bids. And those wheels rattled our world today.
When I excitedly told the boys we would likely be packing up again in under 8 months they seemed thrilled. Tales of a new international school with new ASAs and exciting layovers in Istanbul sparked smiles and chatters of excitement. Zack would play all the sports and make new friends. Gabriel would try out the Coding class.
But it all melted down when my emotionally thread bare extrovert collapsed in a heap during violin practice sobbing that he missed his dad and he doesn't want to move again. He is tired of saying goodbye. He is tired of packing up. He is tired of new schools.
It is the expat life cycle. It is a constant roller coaster. And right now we're riding it out again. Today we shed tears. Tomorrow we will laugh. The next we will fear for our safety. The next we will tour the Old Silk Road. And so it goes.
What will tomorrow bring?
When I excitedly told the boys we would likely be packing up again in under 8 months they seemed thrilled. Tales of a new international school with new ASAs and exciting layovers in Istanbul sparked smiles and chatters of excitement. Zack would play all the sports and make new friends. Gabriel would try out the Coding class.
But it all melted down when my emotionally thread bare extrovert collapsed in a heap during violin practice sobbing that he missed his dad and he doesn't want to move again. He is tired of saying goodbye. He is tired of packing up. He is tired of new schools.
It is the expat life cycle. It is a constant roller coaster. And right now we're riding it out again. Today we shed tears. Tomorrow we will laugh. The next we will fear for our safety. The next we will tour the Old Silk Road. And so it goes.
What will tomorrow bring?
1 comment:
It's not easy Zach, dear. It's hard to say goodbye to friends, even harder if you think about some of the difficulties in seeing each other in person in the future, but your parents are wonderful examples of how to stay in contact with friends overseas. You have Facebook and Skype and email and all sorts of stuff to stay in contact. You can play XBox Live together, you can call each other, you can send good old fashioned snail mail... never feel like you're saying "goodbye-goodbye" Enjoy the time you have together and the adventures you will get to share with one another, that's the best part about being friends-- sharing. Love you guy! -- Auntie Red and Uncle Matt
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