If you move, take your joy with you

Margaret I. Hardy

For the first four years of his life, Ben lived in one house, went to one Sunday School, had the same friends, went to the same parks with his mom, and shopped in the same stores. Then all of a sudden everything changed.

Ben's family moved all the way across the country. But they didn't even move right from one house to another. Before leaving the old city, they stayed with relatives and friends. Ben's mom and dad didn't always know where they were going to be staying each night. Then they had to leave their two cats behind at his aunt and uncle's house when they finally drove across the country, and Ben wasn't sure he was going to see them again. They also left a lot of his toys because they could only bring what would fit in the car.

From the start Ben wasn't exactly sure why all of this was happening, either. He did know that Dad's business hadn't worked out very well, and that Mom and Dad were very, very worried about money. In fact, all of a sudden there didn't seem to be any money in the family at all. And then Dad was offered a job on the other side of the country.

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