I loved seeing a comment from Kathryn… I miss you guys…I’m tryin’ to act smart for your sake! Love you.” (See the post about Homeschooling below)   How I miss our precious girl!  We always have mixed emotions when she’s gone… wanting her to stay and wanting her to enjoy special experiences.  We’re torn over wanting to keep her home and letting her go, too.  So, she’s out of town visiting a friend in Oregon who leaves in a couple of days to return to the mission field in Yemen.  Many months and a whole world away, Kathryn will be…

I’m smiling, thinking about our Timothy. Twelve hundred miles away, he’s seeing the same full moon tonight. And after four months away… tomorrow he’ll be home… for a few weeks. And then he’ll return to California for several weeks. It would seem that this would get easier. But it doesn’t. I’m off to bake chocolate chip cookies. No nuts. And maybe we’ll set out some Nestle’s… and chips and salsa. Maybe horchatta, too. As with all homecoming’s… the rules of decorum sort of fly out the window and we’ll probably sit on the kitchen counter and just talk for a…