Time

There is a silly joke in our household.  Tim and I have some similar taste in movies and TV shows (Sci-fi and adventure sitting pretty high on the list), but one thing that brings us together like nothing else is the Back to the Future Movies.  We both loved them as kids, we still love them as adults.  One of the jokes that occasionally comes up is the excitement of counting down until we reach 2015.  Because, despite no advancements to suggest this is the case yet, of course by 2015 there will be flying cars and most particularly hover-boards.  That reminds me, I need to start working on my skateboard skills in preparations ;)

Time is such a weird thing.

We have just a little under a month and a half until we move to Melbourne for good.  It hit me this week that I could no longer feel super organised by saying "Yes, I think I'll probably start packing this week".  Three weeks ago, that was super organised.  This week, given that I haven't actually even put together a box, I realised that a month is not a long time to pack up a house, while working pretty much full time and socialising the rest of the time.

It has hit our year of College that things are almost over.  And so the next three weeks or so are filled with lots of "Final events".  Final College dinner in the playground.  Final Bible study social.  Final book club, final chapel, extra four year specific thanksgiving service.  Official College good-bye dinner and any number of goodbye dinners that we organise just because we are going to miss everyone.  A friend and I were saying, it's great that we are being so social, but we wish we'd realise how much we'd miss our year sooner so we could have fit all these events into the whole year and not just the last month!

And so, even though it will be a special and meaningful month, I feel a little dizzy when I think about it.  Because I already feel exhausted coming home from work to quickly cook dinner before heading out again.  Adding packing to the mix seems like a bit much.

We have been in Sydney for Four years.  Sometimes it seems like the time has flown and sometimes it seems that four years cannot be enough time to fit in all that we have experienced, the good and the bad.  Nothing has been as I have expected- the things I thought would be hard have not been, the things that I thought would be easy have not been.  But God has got us to this point anyway, and I am grateful.

On Tuesday, Tim will sit his last exam for a very long time.  And then, we will get ready to pack up and leave this Sydney life forever.

Time is such a weird thing.
Love B