Heartfelt Goodbye

John's mom Anita and his sister Wendy have been here from Florida since Friday and are leaving in the morning. Trinity is not having a very easy time saying goodbye as this is normally the case. Considering we only see them 1-2 times a year, Trinity thinks she has to squeeze every possible second from them while they are here. So right now she is exhausted and the tears are flowing pretty heavily.

Tomorrow Trinity has a playdate with her cousin Abree and I have physical therapy for my knee so it will be another long day. A friend of mine has been having some problems the last couple of weeks and has been staying with us for a couple of nights at a time. Did I forget to mention that she also has three little girls; 5yrs., 2yrs, and 10 mos.? So I have been doing everything possible to make her situation more bearable and believe me, it has been CRAZY around here.

For those of you that don't know, brother Jon is now at Camp Lejuene in Jacksonville North Carolina. He has completed his electronics schooling in California and has joined the 2nd Intel Battalion. He will be in NC for at least two years and so far he likes it. He has been in the military now for 1 year and it seems like just yesterday that he left. We are planning a trip out there in a couple of weeks. He is currently a range coach which requires him to instruct other marines on the proper technique of shooting their weapons on the shooting range. (He shot expert marksman in boot camp). He just got promoted to Lance Corporal and should be getting Corporal sometime at the beginning of the year. If you ask him the military is simple and it is no big deal. As for us, the family, we have learned a lot about the workings of the military and are still learning daily how things work.