Packed Again.....

Pleasure trip???

Well...not a cruise, or a vacation in Bora Bora, or a week long adventure in my favorite place...New York,

BUT...Yes, this is a pleasure trip!!!

I am off in the morning to help move the fam home! It has been a long 14 years. We shipped Tim off just one month after high school graduation and he has not been home since. Maybe a brief few days here and there but no extended stay and surely no home right across town that we could visit. We have learned to be okay with missing him and now Mandy and Brooklynn on holidays, birthdays, and other special occasions. We have learned in that period of time that communication is much easier. We have moved from snail mail, to email, and now to SKYPE. All of those technological advances have occurred in his absence. We have sat on pins and needles for months while he was on deployment overseas, and we have prayed endlessly for he and his comrades who have a very difficult job. BUT...the end is here. It is over!!!! They are on their way home for good.

The years have not been bad. There have been many highs in that period of time. It afforded us an opportunity to visit many places we might not otherwise have seen. Our trips to the Academy for football games ranks high on the things we enjoyed the most. Many new and wonderful friends are a result of those great times. Graduation from the Academy is something we will never forget. We stood with pride as we pinned wings on Tim. We cried on the tarmac in Lemoore as we watched his squadron return from a 6 month deployment in Iraq. The list of moments that we will always remember is endless...but it is over. I am teary as I type this because I am joyful and sad at the same time. What Tim committed to was and is honorable. It is over and now our family will all be here together...finally. We can be grandparents..not from a distance. I can enjoy my son and daughter in law...not from a distance. It is time, and I cannot believe it is finally here. I am off and I am returning with my family...that makes it a pleasure trip!