By the time the end of the school year rolled around it was clear to me that we were to return to Grace for Laexin to finish his Senior year - the feelings were so mixed but I knew without a doubt that we needed to go. The kids were all thrilled, LeGrand wasn't. He didn't want to leave at all. He still hadn't found a job but we got the opportunity to start a business out of TX in the oil field where he will run equipment rental for the oil and gas plants - thanks to Trev for the insight and helping us get going. Ideally, moving to TX was probably the best plan, but no one wanted to move somewhere new and the kids said if we were leaving SC they just wanted to go back to our Idahome.
So, we put the house for sale by owner first thinking that we would just stay until it sold and we went into summer trying to soak up all of the time with our amazing ward family and friends! We were so excited to start the summer off at the lake - some of our best memories have been made here. I just wanted so badly to bottle up these days, knowing we were having many 'lasts'.
There were days that were excruciating, my Mama heart broke as each kid went through their own hard things - I wasn't sure I could survive the school year, so many new things, so many hard thing, tears, fighting, begging, and days that felt like years ....and before we knew it, we were at the end! They DID IT! They endured, they got tougher, they fought through the hard, pushed through the uncomfortable and succeeded in making it to the end of the school year. I'm so proud! But I'm even more grateful that God sent us the South Carolina, that he gave us these hard things, and allowed us these opportunities to grow and become better. I think we will look back at the hardest year of our lives with appreciation, because in the end it was THE BEST year!
