Is it always so hard to say goodbye?

I haven't been able to sleep the past couple of nights very well. I find myself staying up way to late, and awaking before the break of dawn. Granted some of those days I have an alarm set for my long runs, but like today I woke up with no reason. Laying awake in bed for hours seems pointless to me when I can be getting so much done while the rest of the house is still sleeping. Mike and I are leaving our kids for a week and going to Hawaii today, and I kinda think that is the main culprit for my insomnia. I have such a hard time leaving home, Mike thinks I am a little silly, but it really is so hard for me. My 3 little ones are my world, that is what I do 24 hours a day, I am their #1. It is hard sometimes, and I go a little crazy and wonder what I got myself into, but it is times like these that I realize how much they are a part of me and who I am. Ahh, I have butterflies in my tummy, and tears in my eyes. Bless my parents for watching them while I am gone, it is such a peaceful thought to know that they are in such good hands. My parents are such wonderful people, and I couldn't ask for better more loving and supportive parents and grandparents for my children. I think that each of my children feel like and think that they are their favorite, and isn't that just how if ought to be? Ok I can't get started here or I will be a complete mess. All I can say is that I have the most wonderful parents in the world, and the very sweetest children ever, and I am going to miss them so very much. I will miss my Boo, Char Man, and Bubba, your mommy loves you more than words.

Loving Family Time

I was going through my pictures tonight and came across this one. It was taken last year around Thanksgiving. My mom's family have a cabin down by Capital Reef, down in southern central Utah. All growing up it was a tradition to drive down to our cabin the night of Thanksgiving after our feast with my Dad's family. All of my cousins would come down and we would fit around 35 to 40 people in a 2 bedroom 1 bath cabin. Some of my fondest memories of my childhood were the times that we spend down there crowed as can be. So this past year my parents decided to start it back up again with their children. We all went down and had our second thanksgiving dinner down at the cabin and we had the most wonderful time. This is a picture of us hiking to Casidy Arch. For those of you who haven't been to Capital Reef, it is a place worth checking out. I love it down there and I wish that I could visit more often.