Empty nest

Jordan has been gone for a month(actually a few days more...yes, I'm counting) and it makes me crazy he has been sick since he has left . This mama want to hug him and make chicken soup for him and tuck him in at night. Sydney is packing up her stuff to leave me too. She is off for her fourth year at college. Where does the time go! Her company around here will be missed...so many words fill the air when she is here. That girl loves to to talk and she does a great job talkin' sports with the daddy. What will we do without her. The nest is nearly empty but like boomerangs they come back, thank gooodness. Oh how I will miss them! We drive them crazy and vice versa...but what a quiet house this will be. I will be left to watch the dog chase the cat, more sibling rivalry only with less words.

We're getting there

Four weeks and we are cruisin' babe...looking forward to get away and lost at sea(in the non-literal way of course). So glad the day is almost here after talking about and planning for what seems like a long time. Yay!
What's the next adventure? I know, planning baseball season 2014...Let's play ball Coach!

Indian Summer

9/11, twelve years later and still a date we not soon forget. Today is near 100 degrees and uncomfortable...maybe as it should be to remember how uncomfortable a day it was back in 2001. Well, with today being so warm means there is still warm weather to come. And it is September! I am thankful because that rainy weather will creep into our lives much too soon. Jordan has been gone almost a month, yay. But only yay because it's closer to the day he will come home! Boo that Sydney hasn't even left yet. Two more weeks and my truly long school year will start. Thirty eight more days until our cruise...temporary fix to help me forget how much I miss the kids. Aahhh, this too shall pass. Right?! Back to school time!! Let's buy some pencils, Sharpies and erasers!