Um..... Never MInd!

Now that my son has made it official on his blog, I can say -- with a HUGE sigh of relief -- that the move to St. Louis is OFF, at least for now, and maybe forever....

I didn't realize how badly I've been sleeping since they told us they were moving, until they told us they weren't.

Sleep is good.

Although he and his bride may still make a decision to move elsewhere in the future -- near or distant -- it looks like it will be of a time and place of their own choosing, and that makes me happy for them.

There is much to be said, I suppose, for working for companies with locations dotted across the U.S., but making folks move at the whim of management is not one of them.

Folks who have lived their lives differently -- with families moving from here to yon routinely -- will tell you that there is much to be enjoyed about not being tied to one place. I accept what they tell me are the neat things about that, because that is their experience.

But if you've done that then you've not had the experience of having deep roots in one place, or the gifts that that brings. The older I get the more I can look back at all the decisions we made that honored those roots and stayed planted, and be very glad we made them.

One of these days, when this young couple looks back after all their decisions are made (no matter what decisions they make), what I wish for them more than anything is that they will have no regrets, either.