A Fond Farewell

Time is marching on, the packers are coming and we really are leaving. We have loved our time here in Cleveland. For a place that I really didn't want to move to four years ago, I am having a very hard time leaving it. We came here with two children and are leaving with five. We've been so incredibly blessed to find lifelong friends during our stay. Although Marc was worked disgusting numbers of hours he has been happy in his work. It's crazy that residency, which is so demanding, has been so good to our family. To our friends and neighbors- thank you a thousand times for your love and support. We will miss you terribly. To my family- I am so grateful for this season of being close to you. Thank you for letting me lean on you during this joyous but difficult phase of life. To our award-winning library and especially our most kind and patient librarian: I am just planning on relocating the entire building to North Dakota. I'm not sure if I'm up to breaking in a new story-time person with my five boys and the libraries out there only allow ten items per card. Since we struggle not to max out our limit of fifty items here in Ohio, I will need you to come straighten them out up north. There are so many things about Cleveland that we will miss- the amazing food, the beautiful parks, the access to culture, normal amounts of retail, etc. Of course, there are some things we will not miss as well but I thought it would be fun to say goodbye to them all in the poetic style of "Goodnight Moon."

"Goodbye Cleveland"
Goodbye Cleveland Town
Goodbye Browns
Goodbye sirens and city sounds
Goodbye Clinic
And goodbye PICU rounds
Goodbye LeBron
(Wait! You're already gone!)
Goodbye Lake Erie
Goodbye weather dreary
Goodbye Costco
And goodbye Rock Hall
Goodbye Indians
And goodbye friends
Goodbye orange barrels
And goodbye ethnic grub
Goodbye traffic
Goodbye parking stubs
Goodbye Dave
And his cosmic subs
Goodbye museums
Goodbye zoo
Goodbye, Cleveland. We'll miss you.


P.S. Since we are moving, I can't very well continue a blog entitled "The Cleveland Chronicles" so I've registered a new domain. You can follow our continuing adventures at fivebelowblog.blogspot.com