more on moving to Huntsville: So, how do YOU feel about the move, Carol?

People keep asking, and it's hard to give a concise answer. Here's some of how I feel:
- I'm excited to try living somewhere different, since I've lived my whole 30 years within a 30 mile radius of the hospital in which I was born.
- I'm excited about living a slower paced life.
- I'm sad that these things mean moving away from so many dear and precious friends (playgroup moms, church friends, girls' night teacher friends) and so much family
- I'm excited to live close enough to Heidi that I can call her and say, "Wow - we've had some terrible thunderstorms. They should be at your place in a few hours."
- I'm excited to try new churhes and have a period of respite from service in the body, a short time of being fed and filled while we seek a place to join, but I'm heartwrenched at leaving our church family in a time when it's beginning seeing some more growth. I'm concerned that I may never find a pastor who shepherds the flock as well as ours does.
- I'm super excited for my husband and the opportunity he has. I'm eager to help make it successful in any way that I can (and I hope that means being able to entertain and provide moral boosting and welcome wagon service to the other families who will relocate to Huntsville for this project.)
- I'm bummed that I don't think we'll have a big back yard, but I'm excited about the location Hampton Cove - it's awesome!
- I'm grateful for the unity and the consideration for each other that Scott and I experienced on the trip, since we can sometimes have disparate ideas about the perfect house or the deal breakers.
- I'm horrified that we will be SO far from the coast. We will no longer have the ability to take spontaneous beach days, or jaunts over the hill to Malibu Country Mart for Pizza, playground and Ben & Jerrys.