Friday, January 23, 2009

Lisa's moving home

We moved from Alabama when Lisa was five years old. She never went to public school in Alabama. Her first school was Wagonwheel Elementary in Gillette, WY. The children played outside UNLESS the wind chill was below zero. She didn't do ballet or gymnastics. Lisa is our basketball/soccer girl. People in Wyoming thought she talked funny ~ being from Alabama. When she was in the third grade we moved to Fort Smith, AR. People there thought she talked funny because she was from Wyoming.
Lisa ~ Boogie ~ LuLu ~ Nibz
When Lisa was a senior at Northside High School, Buck got a job in Jasper, Al. She was not thrilled. We stayed in Fort Smith until she graduated and then joined her dad here in Alabama. Lisa went back to college at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway where she had a GRAND old time! Then the doubts came. . . .
I don't know WHAT to do!!
She lived for a summer in Little Rock and one week into the semester at Pulaski Tech, she moved home. She worked and went to Bevill State for a semester then the wanderlust took a bite out of her once again. "To MOBILE", she said, "that's where I want to be."
This was supposed to shock us?
She got a haircut and sent this photo ~ YIKES! She went to school there at Bishop State and came home for Christmas the weekend BEFORE Christmas. She went back to Mobile to work and spend Christmas alone. Most of her friends had "family" things to do and while she was invited to dinner somewhere, it just wasn't the same as being with her family.
It's all good!
Now we are at another crossroads. She wants to move back home and we are happy to have her. We have always told the girls they can ALWAYS come home. She is not in school at this time and Old Navy has cut back on everyone's hours so home sounds pretty good to her right now. . .no rent, no utilities, no cable bill. . . you get the picture. So, Lisa is moving home ~ probably next week.

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