10 days!

We had my family going away party yesterday, SOOOO fun! It was really weird hugging my aunts and uncles and cousins for the last time for months. Its odd. Its people who are always gonna be there in my mind and its odd knowing I won't see them for Thanksgiving and Christmas and Easter and all that good stuff. Sigh. I managed to hold it together, too. Through toasts and songs and all of it until Maddie. I was holding Miss Maddie when someone said something to me about leaving and she reached over and held my face in between her little hands and said "No Mimi, no leave me" and burried her face in my neck. That's when I lost it and proceeded to cry like a baby for the next hour or so. Lovely. Its only the second time I've cried tho, after the work party on Wednesday where I also held it together remakably well until I was given my very touching and thoughtful gift. I'm sure it will continue as I party like I'm dying for the next 10 days. May not be much blogging til I'm en route...lots to do...

*Love*