Au Revoir

I think we all know what the phrase au revoir means.  Good-bye, right?  But in French, it literally means something more like "to the next time we see one another."

And I'm afraid that is what I must say right now. 

The chaos of the floors and the remodeling I told you about.  But what I didn't tell you about is that one of my children is struggling.  Really struggling.  And I honestly haven't known how to help her.

But one thing that has come to my mind over and over is to organize, simplify and reduce.  So I continued to write, but I haven't been visiting your blogs very often. I haven't been responding to your wonderful comments.

And finally I've realized that it just isn't fair for me to just keep writing without giving anything back to you.  I'm disappointed because this blog was my own little piece of me.  My own little attempt at doing something scary and different.  My effort at being more. 

But right now my little girl needs me to be more for her.  And that is enough.

Hopefully I will be able to return to writing again.  Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later.  Hopefully it will be "to the next time we see one another" rather than "goodbye." I'll still check my emails, so I'd love to hear from you. 

It Never Rains in Southern California

.... or that's how the song goes.  And, thankfully, the weather was fantastic, except on the last day when we were planning to go to the harbor and see the Maritime and Midway museums—Doc was quite bummed about that.

So what were the highlights?  (And I promise at the end there will be a connections—maybe slight?—to my regular making-a-home Wednesdays posts.   

1.   Doc's Lecture

I know that sounds weird, but he's been a professor for many years now and I've only seen him lecture a couple of times.  So I get a little thrill watching him work a room.

I'm cheating—this pic was actually taken at a conference that he hosted earlier in the year (I couldn't snap a shot in the middle of his address).

2.   Mormon Battalion Museum

This place was impressive, and I think kids would absolutely love it.  The guides dressed in historical costumes and "had conversations" with actors in short videos (those pictures on the wall are actually video screens) throughout the tour.