And we're off

This is my last day at home for a month - starting tomorrow I'll be living at a hotel in Walterboro, SC.  I'll be answering to a whole lot of attorneys who want everything one minute ago.  I'll be making sure everybody has what they need, when they need it, oh and read minds about what they really want, not what they ask for!  I've never been away from my family this long and I doubt I'll be able to come home until maybe the 2nd or 3rd weekend.  I know they will do just fine without me, but I can't help but feel a bit sad and distraught about Kyle starting 2nd grade while I'm away (school starts August 11...doesn't that seem crazy early?) and that David gets to do the back-to-school and school supply shopping.

BUT...I get to spend a month doing what I love, doing what I swear I was born to do.  Organize, orchestrate and handle anything that comes my way.  Anyway, I'll post if I can while I'm away, but while I'm away please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

*****

Psalm 121

15 minutes of Fame?

Andy Warhol, right?  That's who said we each get 15 minutes of fame?  Apparently I'm getting someone else's 15 minutes as well as my own.  I've been interviewed several times by newspapers in towns where I was living and I was recently interviewed by the Augusta paper regarding my reading and techno-based reading habits.  The reporter came across my reading list on GoodReads.com and sent me an email asking if she could interview me.  They had planned to include a picture from my book club, but we never ended up connecting on the photographer thing.  I had no idea when the piece was going to run and it had kind of slipped my mind until yesterday at work when people were talking to me about it and giving me a hard time.  So here's my 15 minutes of fame...again! 

Birthday Boy

He looks 7 doesn't he?  

My Heaven

I'm currently reading The Lovely Bones and it has me thinking a lot about "my heaven" and what it would be like. My heaven would be at the beach in a big open house with a wide balcony and airy, open rooms. And people, there would be people. Loads and loads of people eating, talking, playing games, running through the house on the way to the beach and napping lazily on the balcony. In this life I have missed out on having a big extended family that bickers and loves in the same breath. I would want that in my heaven. A sort of never-ending Norman Rockwell painting that I was a part of. Kite flying, sand castle building, dog walking and fire works...an eternal summer.