Welcome Home

We've arrived! Yesterday we packed up the UHaul, said our goodbyes, and hit the road.

Wayne and Caeden were in the UHaul. We brought only the neccessities:

1. Every single shoe and handbag I own
2. Caeden's toys - including all the broken ones and the ones missing pieces
3. Wayne's Grill and Green Egg (BBQ all summer long)
4. Kitchen towels and a million clothes hangers

I have no idea where my work clothes are, where the kids' P.J's are, where anything is - really, but of course, I opened that box with kitchen towels straight away.

Yes, so all the neccessities are not really neccessities, but when you have a UHaul to fill up, things find a way inside.

Anyway, back to the road trip. On a not-so-particular stretch of road we came across a TURTLE crossing the hot, busy highway. Poor ol' crabby turtle, it's belly must have been on fire trying to move as fast as possible to avoid traffic traveling at 75 mph.

I watched that poor creature for as long as I could in my rear view mirror before I lost sight of him. I smiled all the rest of the way here because the turtle was a sign.

When Wayne and I were dating we were driving around the countryside somewhere in SD and came across a turtle doing the very same thing as the one from yesterday. I have a soft spot for the ancient creatures, and asked Wayne to please pull over and go help that sweet thing across the road. Without hesitation Wayne screatched to a hault and went to find that turtle. I watched as he tried to avoid getting his finger bit off as he placed in the grass, safely on the other side of the highway.

That's when I knew he was the one.

That crotchety ol' turtle crossing the highway might as well have had a banner tethered to his shell that said "Welcome Home."