My precious son left for Japan this morning!  I spent the day with Kay and Andy (daughter and brother in case you don't know them from my posts)  That kept me distracted!  As soon as I got home I sobbed !  How can I not see him for TWO YEARS???  When he returns Gary will be in his terrible twos!  Grace will be a teenager! Kay will be all grown up (she pretty much is, but she is 17 so she is still considered a child here) Trevor will be a biologist!  David will be pumping iron!  James will be in school !  Jordan was born premature with a deceased twin!  He was so tiny and so skinny as a baby!  He had colic for the first 4 months!  Then he started getting pneumonia and had asthma!  I have had to watch over him carefully for so many years!  Now he is going to be on the other side of the planet!  I love him so much!  I crey somemore!  I lived through boot camp, MCT, and job school !  All of those were in the US!  Boot was hard because we could only write and not call, but he is around the freaking planet!  This is us before he left this morning!  I am sorry I am such a sad sack!  I am just really beside myself tonight!

Kay took this wonderful photo!!!  Thank you Kay!

...in other news...Jane has Story Assignment #8 up and going!  I can't wait to see your posts!  This time it is about your family, so please share your life with all of us!  We are a 2nd family here on Buzznet!  We want to meet someone special in your RL family! (: