This past month has been a bit of a whirlwind, especially this past week. My son has been preparing to leave on a two year mission to the Winnipeg, Canada mission. He has spent the last week doing home MTC, which is done via zoom.

We took him to the airport last night, so he can report at the MTC today. My mom and dad picked him up in Salt Lake City, Utah, and will drive him down to Provo, Utah to get him checked in, or dropped off anyway.

He will spend 2 weeks in the MTC (Missionary Training Center) and then fly to Winnipeg to begin serving. We have met with his mission president and his wife via zoom, and they are excited to have him serve there in the mission they are overseeing.

I don’t know if I’m broken, or just really do view life a little bit differently, but I am so excited for my kids adventures that I rarely cry when they leave. Not that I’m not going to miss them immensely. I look forward to the day we get to see each other again, every single day. But I just feel like this is a part of growing up, a great part of it!

We now will focus on our daughter who also received her mission call recently and will be leaving the first part of June. Having sent one daughter on a mission already, I have decided girls are cheaper and easier to prepare for a mission than boys. Most of the prep work is the same I guess, but the clothing requirements for girls are much more readily available and cheaper than suits. Plus, she’s staying in the United States, so less paperwork.

For some reason I have always viewed the various stages of my life as different chapters in a book. We are embarking individually, and as a family on new chapters of our lives right now, and I am excited to write this new one for myself, to see how each person in our family writes their own new chapters, and to write a new family chapter as well.