Flaming June's Love

A Wednesday....  Why does it always seem as though it is Wednesday?  Mondays are "special"  The weekends of course are special, Fridays are special.  But Wednesday?  It always feels like a Wednesday. Jack had a late start today, 8:45.  My classes begin at 8:30 so we scramble around and try to be as "in between" as possible. Next week Andy and I go to California for Laurens wedding.  We leave from Newark on Saturday, arrive on the West coast around 11:30 am and enjoy hopefully some Pacific ocean time. Wedding Sunday which will be lovely I know.  Then head on back to the East coast on Monday home by 9 pm. What makes this special is that Jack will be in Rhode Island at Brown University with the Model UN Club from school attending a conference. So I will be on the west coast and Jack will be on the East coast. I keep thinking this is a nice warmup to college and his trip to Europe in June  But dear Gawd its a struggle. I feel alright  I need...

 Jack is a Junior in High School. He takes his drivers test next week. Owen is 5 and in Kindergarten.  Missi and Brandon are married almost 8 years and happy. Andy is fully grey, his beard is white and he is no longer the Mayor.  We spend more time together now than any time before in our marriage.  He makes me crazy sometimes but there is an understanding now that I missed for all of these years.   We purchased a big double block home in Forty Fort and he is working on it all of the time.  I want it finished so we can be done with all of the hustle and bustle of "rebulding" two huge homes. One and a half years and Jack graduates HS.  When I look back on this blog I see so much of our time together trying to just get by.  Now we are working in a nice rhythm pattern of highs and lows, but nothing is ever unmanageable.  Our lows are never that low and our highs are celebrated. Nana is doing well.  She is currently in NM with Rick and ...