last week ...

sorry, i've been putting up more images than thoughts lately. summer gets to be that way. you know that, i'm sure.

jimmy is here for the next couple of days. we'll be driving him up to DC on Thursday to spend the night with Lolly and family before driving him to BWI on Friday evening to see him off to Chile.

yeah, Chile.

He's going to live.

I'm really not sure how I'm going to handle it. the thought of him going is both incredibly saddening and exhilerating. saddening because we REALLY DON'T KNOW when we'll be able to SEE him (to hug him) again. it might be a few months, or it could easily be a few YEARS. the joke is, now that he's going to be living there, we'll have a place to stay when we go visit. and that IS in the plans -- to go visit and take the family to see where Daddy grew up.

i'm beginning to get a feeling for what my aunts and uncles must've gone through when momma and daddy left for overseas in 64. i talked about it some in the message on sunday. (see Emmerton Messages in the links to the right)

God, be with him.