growing up....

Dan and Nate are close to leaving Indianna and will be home this afternoon

Alex and I will be leaving for Indianna where he will spend a week at diabetic camp.... probably his last one....

It's been a great place for him to go every summer. I remember the first year- he was 10- I was such a wreck about leaving him with total strangers that I went too and spent a week being "nurse" to a bunch of 10y/o girls with diabetes. The girls complained that our laughing woke them up in the morning- only fair- we were up half the night sneaking in to check their blood sugars! I think I had more fun than he did that year! What a great place- what great people.... The camp has quite the international flavor as there are a good many kids from Russia who attend.... I remember fondly my little one from Khavastan (sp?) She must be all grown up now.... I heard that she is planning to be a nurse....

I was assigned a doctor that year also- who spoke no English. We smiled, nodded and somehow managed to communicate nicely...

Alex and I have had a great week.... We went to his college orientation on Thursday. Friday he went out and got himself a full time job! All on his own- with no helpful advice from mom! Even picked out his own clothes! He'll start the week he comes back and work until school starts. Halleluhah.

Last night I sat on the porch swing and watched him put on a one man Harlem globetrotters show...."hey mom, watch this" It seems that no matter how old they get, men never lose the boy inside (at least the good ones don't!)