Mothers are a girl’s best friend (Part 2)

This time it was my turn to visit my mom. With my dad’s recent employment and relocation to Wilmington, NC, I was tempted to take a quick drive (6 hours) from Athens to go and check it out. My mother still resides in St. Louis as we’re in the process of selling our house, so she flew in and we all met up. Even though my mother and I had just seen each other the previous weekend, we were happy to have more playtime together.

To continue our underwater sea theme, we took a trip to Carolina Beach, which turned out to be only 5 miles from their new residence in Wilmington. The beach is quite a detour away from the four-seasons (especially winter!) of the Midwest, but my guess is that it’s not going to take my parents too long to adjust.

We strolled up and down the sandbars aimlessly chatting of where our lives seem to have taken us, with my mother confessing she would never had projected in a million years that she would spend her life gradually moving east. She grew up and lived in California for 28 years, moved to the middle of the country in Missouri where she’s spent 24 years, and now will move to the easternmost coast for the rest of her life. This intrigued me to really appreciate the spontaneity of life. Whether we’re in limbo right now or not, it is a comfort to know that our lives are forever changing and everything will work out…even if it is the most opposite direction than we could have ever imagined.