Surviving

I've survived the first few days of my baby boy being away in OH and WV. He will barely talk to us on the phone because he's so busy. It used to bother me when Ash would do the same thing when she was little and went on these trips with my mom but I came to understand that their independence from me is a good thing.

It was quite an adventure picking Ash up from tennis camp last Friday. We were supposed to just attend the awards ceremony and then come back the next morning to pick her up but the other moms decided during the awards that they would just go ahead and check their daughters out that night so they could spend the next day shopping and wouldn't have to come back for them. I was a bit irritated but not because we getting Ash a 1/2 day early but because I'd already told those mothers that if our girls all checked out - that left one girl alone in that cabin for the night. Apparently that did not phase them because they decided to take their girls anyway. I had already been in the cabin and I knew their daughter's stuff was strung from one side to the other and that packing was going to be no easy feat for them but decided to let them learn the hard way. Ash is neat by nature so her stuff was all by her bed where it should be so it took me all of 5 minutes to pack her up and in the truck. The look on the other mom's faces when they saw the condition of the cabin was priceless! They were still trying to figure out what belonged to who when DH and I walked out to the truck and drove away.

Luckily our hotel let us switch to double beds rather than a king. We all slept in the next morning and hit the road about 10:30. Ash was beat so our plans for a long day at the outlets in Round Rock or San Marcos were squashed. We did do a little shopping and site seeing in Gruene that morning. A very neat town right on the Guadalupe. Lots of folks in bathing suits and coverups coming off and on the river. We had a nice lunch at the Gruene River Cafe and then headed home. We were all pretty beat by the time we hit TC.

It was odd coming home and not having E or Asta at the house (she was at the boarders). It always seem too quiet when they are not around.

I've been keeping up with Maggie Lee on the caringbridge website. Her numbers are still fluctuating but she's fighting. I'm still absolutely amazed by her parents faith and the outpouring of support from strangers all over the globe. What a story of survival and faith!