Our really good friends have abandoned us. We have lived across the street from them for the past six years! Two years in Utah and four years in Pennsylvania. Lucas has known them his entire life. Their two kids, Cooper and Sadie are his best friends, and are more like siblings then friends. We have been everywhere and done everything with them! Lucas would go anywhere with them in a heartbeat. He has been known to get in the car and want to ride home with them rather than his own parents.
I have been prepping Lucas for their departure for the past week, trying to explain to him that they are moving to a new house far away, but in a few months we will get on a plane and go see them and their new house. When they were packing I took him over there so he could see the boxes and the moving truck. When their apartment was completely cleared out we went over there and I explained it to him again. At one point I told him that he will get to go to preschool in the fall and meet new friends. Lucas responded by asking me if Cooper and Sadie were going to preschool, and I said that were going to a different preschool, far away. He said, "I don't want to make new friends." How do you answer that when you are feeling the same way you don't want to make new friends either. I have had the nursery leaders at our church telling me how they don't know what Lucas is going to do without Sadie in nursery, they walk to nursery together and then they are pretty much inseperable during nursery. Though it was tough and is still tough, a day doesn't go by without Lucas mentioning them. "Where is Sadie and Cooper?", "Will Sadie and Cooper be there?" "Is Sadie and Cooper eating dinner?" Sadie and Cooper wear underwear and go potty." "I went potty like Cooper." We have been making a great effort to continue to take him to different activities in the community and with church members and he is doing great, though we think of and miss our friends, dearly!
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