We were very happy to make our flight at LAX for Seattle yesterday. We were the latest we’ve ever been for a flight and just made the 40 minute cut-off for checking a bag. Sheesh.
It’s good to be home but I made the mistake of walking into our son’s empty room this morning and I lost it. Even though he’s a 28 year old adult the realization that he’s left the nest hits this mom’s heart. The old world Russian upbringing I had never condoned kicking your kids out of the house at 18! They in fact would be pretty upset if a son or daughter left their house before they were married! :0)
We really couldn’t be happier that he has found a great vocation for himself and that he is being trained for it many miles away from home. When his training is complete he will be living about 6 hours away from us.
Photobucket is holding all my photos that I stored on their site from 2007-2015 hostage replacing them with ugly grey and black boxes and asking for a large ransom to retrieve them. It is a slow process to go through all my posts deleting the ugly boxes.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
Oh my goodness! I can totally picture you walking down there and crying!! Consider yourself hugged! I will now wipe the tear off my laptop sheesh!
I know the feeling well, my friend.
Hi Ellen,
You are such a sweet mother – what a touching post! I’ve been praying for you all.
I hope you were greeted with fall weather when you touched down in Seattle.
Blessings.
Always a mother….heart strings pulled…hmmmm….hope your week is grand with all your kids…..and YEAH that your son will be closer!
You can call on me anytime….I’ve been in those moccasins!!
oh bless your heart, mama E!
I hear you Ellen. I left all the boy’s rooms as is for awhile, then painted each a cheerful color, boxed all the leftover memories and stored them. There are traces of the “former residents” but it helped me move on as I passed by each room. I’ll pray for you….