Sad

We currently have 4 empty houses on out street, and I know of another 4 people moving out this summer.  We're having a huge turnover!  I know that summer is the season of military moving and change, but I can't remember losing this many people I know before.  It is sad.

Even more sad is that we found out Delaney's best friend is moving.  A week ago, his dad was gearing up for a 9 month deployment, and was suppose to be leaving Friday morning.  On Wednesday, they were told, just kidding, no deployment, but you are moving to Korea in a few months, so get moving.  Yikes!  So they go from being mentally prepared for a 9 month deployment and have to adjust to their whole family moving in 8-10 weeks.... to a foreign country!  I'd been so happy they were going to be here another year, so now I am really sad.  And sad for Delaney.  She and James have been best friends for the last 18 months.  And I mean BEST friends. Delaney will disappear over to his house and I won't see her all day.  She will come home just before bedtime, having had dinner over there.  I'm pretty sure they could pack her up and take her with them and it would be a few days before I noticed she wasn't here anymore.  I think she may spend more waking hours at their house than ours.

On the plus side, I love the excitement of getting new neighbors.  I am so hoping for some more girls Callie's age.  She is having trouble with a girl here who is trying to keep all the other girls from being Callie's friend and it is so much drama!  I'm hoping for one nice kid to be good friends with Callie.  And another nice boy would be great.  Joshua's best friend was one of the move-outs in March and I've missed him having someone to go play with.  And someone who "gets" Marian would be nice.  There was one kid who got along very well with Marian when we first moved in, but they left about a year ago.  Marian does fine on her own, but I think she'd like to have an actual friend some days.

I'm losing a few friends too, so I hope new people will move in who are compatible with us.  Sigh.   This is such a depressing time of year sometimes.

And a year from now, we'll be the ones moving.  The cycle never ends!