Spring is in the air!! Spring fever and spring cleaning and all that are right around the corner and I have survived another winter. Hallelujah!

Two years ago yesterday Clint and I got engaged. I can't believe that was only two years ago!! It feels like I have lived a lifetime since then. He and I always try to think of our lives like a story that our children and grandchildren will hear. Most of the details get lost- like all the day to day stuff. What remains is told in bold strokes: She was from the North and he was from the South. She was Church of Christ and he was Baptist. They met and fell in love in Abilene. It is funny to me that we are in the middle of a life changing event, having moved out here to Virginia, and there is a chance that no one will even remember that part of our story eventually. One day one of our kids might say "Mom, I get confused. You met and married in Abilene, and I know you eventually moved to Austin but didn't you live in Virginia somewhere in there?!" AHH- how much I long for this part of our lives to be a small detail in the big picture!! It makes me wonder- there are parts of my parents story that I get confused about. They lived in Abilene, got married in California, lived in California, came back to Abilene etc. I wonder if they had similar experiences to ours here in Virginia. Anyway... I think it is good to live you life like a story that you get to write by the choices you make now. It makes it easier to leave the kind of legacy you want.