Wow, three days……………we leave 3-19

I just didn’t think it would ever come…………………………we said goodbye on August 5th as she boarded that plane  and we will say hello in person, hug her, look her over……….really see her on March 20th in Switzerland………………..it was hard to let her go, it will be harder to say goodbye after this short time together………..but wow, what a difference in her life………….bi lingual, independent, grown in ways I cannot know right now…………………I know she’s still a kid, but she’ll be different from the one I let go of in the airport all those months ago………What to expect?  I really don’t know……….I just want to see her, hold her and listen to her………I want Kyly and Paige to have a heck of a time in Paris, on their own while we are at Disney with John.  I want us to hold dear these memories of a trip I bet we’d never taken if our little dreamer hadn’t gone on this adventure…………………I want to drink it the ambiance of Venice and Zurich and Luzern and Paris and the roads in between…………..

I remember oh so well, she was 5, Paige was 8 —-John wasn’t on the radar…………  We moved from Kellogg Valley to the house we live in now.  We were excited……a playroom and lots of room to grow up a family in…….Kyly was crying……….I asked her what was wrong and she said, ” you said we were moving……” with crocodile tears…..  I said, “we did move, sweetie,………you are in a new room in a new house!”  She said, “but it’s the same McDonald’s, the same Harvest Foods, the same Taco Bell………………………we didn’t go anywhere!” 

We knew then that she was not going to live here forever but we couldn’t have imagined we’d be visiting her in a country where she is speaking another language on a daily basis…………a place she would call home and love.

 Wow, it’s almost overwhelming…………..

 I can’t wait to see her……………….