Mixed Emotions

It is with mixed emotions that we head to California tomorrow. It will be just Greg and I for five days! We are looking forward to having that time to reconnect. Greg has been working a lot lately. However, this will be the first time I have left Mackenzie for this long. I will certainly miss her. Tonight as I tucked Kennedy into bed, she cried because she was already starting to miss us. We will definitely miss her too. Madison, well she can't wait to go the the Casali's. I am quite sure she will not miss us, but we will obviously miss her. By the way, thank you Tom and Pam for taking all of the girls so we can make this trip. We owe you! The girls are all looking forward to staying with them and I am sure they will be spoiled by the time we get home on Monday. In addition to this Greg and I are feeling like we should be two places at once. We are going to CA for his cousins wedding. We are really looking forward to it. We have not seen this cousin since our wedding 11 years ago. Way to long! However, we have a friend from our Fort Wilderness days whose three year old daughter passed away over the weekend. Anna bravely fought a form of childhood cancer for 13 months. Even though we have the assurance of seeing her again one day in Heaven, that does not make the pain any easier for her family. We wish we could be there to offer our support to our friends. So anyway, that is where we are right now.

Well, we have to drop the two younger girls off tomorrow around noon and I have lots to do yet. Greg is still at work so it looks like I will be packing for him again. I am beginning to think he does this on purpose. Hopefully I will have some beautiful sunny pictures to post next week.