May 23, 2003

• Bubba's Coming Home

  
  

  My baby brother is all grown up and Armified.  He's been over seas for a little over two years now, and I've hated every stinking second of it.  But he's coming home.  It looks like his plane is going to land just in time for him to hitchhike along for the big trip to Florida.  He's known for that kind of good luck.  Just to give you an example, here's a photo of Dave taken AFTER his unit hiked along this short-cut dirt road.  They climbed over the fence at the end to discover that they'd just taken a 10 mile stroll through a mine field.

  
  

  

  
  

  Please feel free to follow one of the subtle links to his Xanga site that I've worked into this blog and tell him Welcome Back!

  
  

  We'll be celebrating non-stop.  Between two birthdays (did I mention that *I'm* having a birthday?) and Uncle David's return to the fold, there may be some confusion about just who are the adults and who are the children in the party.  I'm thinking that we should put Kate in charge.

  
  

  I can't wait to see Kate.  For several years Kate spent as much time with me as she did with her parents.  The year Tucker was born, she was over at my house every single day helping with the baby, helping with the house, helping me stay sane.  Oh, there was some talk that the reason she was there was so I could oversee her homeschool while Maureen was at work, but the truth was that she did far more to help me than I did for her.  I haven't seen her in almost five years!  That's too long.  While we've been apart she's been slipping steadily into the ranks of the respectable conservative crowd, and even became President of the Young Republicans on her college campus this past year.  (You try to raise 'em right and then just look what they go and do!)

  
  

  So yes, with Dave on board and Kate in Charge ~ Whoooo Hooooo, look out Florida, here we come.

  
  

  I hope you all have a Marvelous Memorial Day Weekend.  Lovingmy40s and I will be in ATLANTA at the home of the lovely and notorious, Daffodilous.  We'll be thinking about you guys, talking about you guys, and if our last get-together is anything to go by, we'll be up late at night sneaking onto the Internet to check and see if you guys have posted anything new.  We're also meeting Fugitive and KSgal who wil be in Atlanta on entirely different business.  Can it get any better?  Oh, yes it could.  We need Luckystars, SisterCTR, Melsworld, Tina, Rache, Craktpot, oh, my, I can think of at least 50 of you we'd like to have along for the ride.  So next time, someone with a really big house ...

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