This is Rike today. Uncle Zack was watching him while I went to what I HOPE was my last college math class EVER. I just have to pass the final and I'm home free.
Rike's Mom was in St George on a job interview for a company she really wants to work for.
And I'm kind of freaking out tonight. I see Ashli and Riken EVERY.SINGLE.DAY!!! How will I EVER handle them living in St George? Riken changes every day. Like all of a sudden today he is holding his own bottle. I held it yesterday and today he doesn't want to be held while he eats. He just wants to hold his own bottle and be a big boy. He laughs now. He even tried to do pat-a-cake today. How can I stand it when I miss him growing up on a day-to-day basis? This is SO much harder than I ever imagined it could be.
I've done this already. Cried buckets of tears when Ashli went to college. Freaked out and went crazy on the way home from dropping Zack off at college. I prepared myself for the empty nest. So when life turned out so unexpectedly the way it did this past year, and I ended up living here in Ephraim with ALL THREE of my adult kids, it seemed too good to be true. And, it was:( Tyler's mission call will probably be here tomorrow. Ashli will probably get the call tomorrow that she got the job. And I have to do the empty nesting grief all over again. Thank goodness I have Zack right next door. I hope he and I both live here for a long, long time to come!!!
