Miss'Em Already

Summer is winding down and our last bunch of little ones have headed home! It's always sad to see them leave---so much energy leaves this house when there are no little ones running around! This house----has been full of energy since 1980! Kids, dogs, friends and family and been concentrated here for the last 5 weeks and hopefully the walls have just soaked it all in so we will get a slow "ooze" out til they're ALL back together again-- maybe at Thanksgiving---hopefully at Christmas! Derek just needs to be here as well----we ALWAYS miss him! In the meantime, we'll have to settle for occasional weekend visits and even tho I want ALL of them---I'll settle for whoever we can get! ha! Hopefully Rick will separate from the Air Force next spring and they'll find a job in Tulsa or OKC/Norman area! ( I think I'll start setting up interviews for him in those areas! ha!) Maybe if we had just had a 6th child---that child would have been the one to stay in B'Ville--- have a bunch of kids and live close by so it wouldn't always have to be all or nothing. Maybe we should have been like the Duggars and just kept having kids til the baby factory shut down! Naw-----I would have liked to have had ONE more-----not 14 more!! I'm sentimental ---I'm not CRAZY!!! For now I'll just look forward to dinner out and a movie with my main squeeze Dave! I'm pretty sure he's still around-----I haven't seen much of him for --oh--like the last 4 or 5 weeks----I do recall a lot of noise at about 5:10 everyday complete with loud laughter, chasing, a lot of floor wrestling and kids squealing-----that HAD to be him!!