Work has been kickin’ my butt lately, so what’s new? But I’m coming up for air long enough to post this blog. Has anyone noticed that I never post about my children? If strangers ever happened upon our blog, which might be plausible if I ever posted anything interesting, it might appear that Kirk and I are a childless, anti-social, older couple who have nothing better to do but ride around on our Harley and incubate larvae for fun…which is mostly true, except for the childless part.
Actually, I have justifiable reasons for omitting our children from the blog:
1) I really haven’t been blogging all that long, and sometimes Vacations, Harley’s and Botflys are more interesting than children.
2) Our married children (Jen & Tony and Jared & Heather) have their OWN blogs. Since our 40-something-year-old friends DON’T blog (pretending we really have friends) the only people who DO visit our blog are family and occasionally friends of our children, who leave comments because they feel sorry for us that we don’t have friends of our OWN to comment. So I don’t blog about the married kids because that would be like watching a re-run, don’t you think?
3) We do have two younger sons who have been away from home serving full-time missions for the LDS church. Josh has been serving in the Jackson, Mississippi mission since October 2006, and Justin has been serving in the Santa Rosa, California Spanish-speaking mission since May 2008. I miss them horribly and can’t bear to think of them, so I haven’t blogged about them. (Okay that’s not true but it sounds better than, “I just didn’t feel like blogging about them”.)
I truly DO miss our sons. When Josh had been away from home for only three months I started asking, “Shouldn’t he be coming home soon?” Then I would count on my fingers and realize he still had another 21 months to go….sigh. Only two states away in California, Justin is so close that I’m often tempted to jump in the car, drive the 800 miles to California and kidnap him for a day! Of course that would be breaking the rules and Justin, as those who know him will confirm, is definitely NOT a rule-breaker.
BUT, we are in serious countdown mode for our Josh to come home!! Kirk and I will be hopping a plane to Mississippi on TUESDAY to bring our boy home! I know, right?! I am so excited I can hardly stand it!! So I started thinking about what it might be like for Josh to see his family AFTER TWO WHOLE YEARS!!
I truly DO miss our sons. When Josh had been away from home for only three months I started asking, “Shouldn’t he be coming home soon?” Then I would count on my fingers and realize he still had another 21 months to go….sigh. Only two states away in California, Justin is so close that I’m often tempted to jump in the car, drive the 800 miles to California and kidnap him for a day! Of course that would be breaking the rules and Justin, as those who know him will confirm, is definitely NOT a rule-breaker.
BUT, we are in serious countdown mode for our Josh to come home!! Kirk and I will be hopping a plane to Mississippi on TUESDAY to bring our boy home! I know, right?! I am so excited I can hardly stand it!! So I started thinking about what it might be like for Josh to see his family AFTER TWO WHOLE YEARS!!
Huh…turns out not a lot has changed after all! BUT, my predictions for what Justin will miss while he’s gone?...2 babies, a wedding (not necessarily in that order) and Kirk will finally build me that swimming pool… 
