Last Saturday, we headed down to Charlotte. James and I in one car, John in another. The whole way down all I kept thinking how the drive would be much better if we were all together, in one car, as a family – talking and laughing and passing the time. Together. But we needed the two cars since John wasn’t coming back to Ohio with us, he was staying to start his new job. It was like this huge cloud over the whole weekend – we played, went to the pool, checked out the area – even though we were treating it like a vacation, it wasn’t. We knew it was coming to an end and we would be parting, the beginning of our family being separated for an undecided amount of time. It was the strangest feeling. John and I have done long distance before, a few times - but this is different. This is three times farther, we have many more responsibilities that we cant just drop to visit each other, and of course there is James. I'm not sure how James will do. But I'm about to find out.

Charlotte was great though, and once James and I are down there and our family is back together – I will know that all of this is worth the distance. This won't be easy. But it will be worth it.

"There's no reward in life without risk."

~Barry J. Farber~