Day 326 - Give Daddy a round of applause!

I think Brad did an excellent job on getting the daily picture up - everyone, please give Brad a pat on the back, a round of applause, a cookie for doing such a fantastic job!

I decided to also put my commentary in on our road trip so that as Allie gets older (and me too!) she can see what a great friend I had to share in my cross country experience and hopefully she'll have a friend as good to her as Rhonda is to me!!

Hmm - I left Augusta on Wednesday and now it is Sunday. That's four days away from home and I feel like Allie is growing like a little weed without me being there. Her hair seems longer, her face seems slimmer and her baby babble is turning into words. The transition out here has been pretty easy, it's the transition of being away from Allie and Brad that is the hardest. At the end of the day, I'm a pretty self sufficient person. I wasn't always like that. I relied on Brad to MAKE me that way and then work gave me a little kick in the rear end to push me on the ledge to really be self sufficient once I started traveling. The hardest part about being away is that before, Allie and Brad were the center of my world. Everything about my day was about them. I don't quite know how to handle going from that to....having all of this time on my hands. Sure I have all of these objectives for myself - exercise, photo album 1000+ photos, read, knit, etc, etc, etc....but at the end of the day, my heart and soul ache for Allie.

I did a quick webcam today and, of course, she wasn't interested in talking to me - she was interested playing with the beads Daddy gave her to sit still! I truly had to hold back tears because I couldn't reach out and hug her! I actually went out today and bought the Johnson's Bedtime lotion so that I could have Allie's smell close by. During our webcam, my mom got Allie to scrunch up her face and LORD HELP - Allie is going to be JUST LIKE ME! Wearing her emotions on her sleeve....

Then Brad sent me this...the same face she gave me during the webcam!

Wow - I love her. I miss her.

For a little re-assurance, I called our realtor and asked why we haven't gotten ONE SINGLE person stopping by to look at our house. I'm really going to push Brad and Allie to move on out here to Salt Lake by mid to late October. If you know someone, anyone that is interested in a house....persuade them they need to move to North Augusta. I don't care if they live in California....talk them into moving to North Augusta....it's nice there....and it would be nice to get my family out here with me!!