With Eric and Charlie gone the house seems so empty.  The seniors are no longer seniors but graduates, and we are no longer juniors but middlers.  It’s hard to contemplate that in 1 year we will be seniors and in 2 years we will be graduates.  It is very hard for myself to express the emotional roller coaster that I am currently experiencing.  Like I said Eric and Charlie are gone and I know that when we get back all the Seniors that I have grown use to seeing almost everyday will be gone.  Especially the spouses at PMO and most of all the kids.  It will be hard not returning to PMO in the Fall and it will be really hard not being able to see the beautiful faces of the now graduate kids (or shall I say PKs).  I know that this year will not even come close to how I will feel when the seniors graduate next year.  This is an unusal situation and the only time where I will be around other spouses going through a simular situation.  Good luck graduates, their spouses, and children, and God Bless!!!

        As you all know, or at least most of you know, I am leaving for South Africa in two days.  TWO DAYS!!!  Holy Moly, Africa!!!  How do you prepare for that??  I mean packing wise and emotionally.  So far the latest up date is that we will possiblly be staying in a children’s AIDS clinic, go hiking up a mountain (WOW!!), go on a Safari  (Double WOW!!!), and eat a lot of interesting food.  We will also be going to poverished areas in Africa, have lunch with Desmond Tutu, and go to Robin Island.  Some people going on the trip are really hoping a baboon will take their sandwich away (Sean Maloney).  I hope I’m not around when all the baboons come for more sandwich handouts.  This is going to be an amazing trip and everyone has told me that it will be life changing.  I hope it is and I hope it makes me uncomfortable so I can better understand what my brothers and sisters in Africa are facing and I can share it with everyone I know.

TWO DAYS!!! Holy Moly, Africa!!!