off I go

Here I go again, on yet another adventure. By my count I've spent the night away from home 19 nights in 2007 already. I'm about to add 6 more to that starting tomorrow during the mission trip I'm taking with 5 youth from my group and my summer assistant. We'll be serving the fine folks in a rural Tennessee community for the next week. I'm excited about it, even knowing just how exhausted I felt when we returned from this same trip last year. All this to say that there'll be about a week of blog-silence. I doubt highly that I'll have any kind of online access to post, check other's posts or get email. I know I'll miss it! I'm certain to miss news of the birth of Krista's baby - check out her blog, it's one of my favorites.

Henry's watching Mary Poppins. I'm so happy he likes it - it's one of the best Disney movies, particularly because it stars my most favorite lady movie star of all time. Julie Andrews is so freaking beautiful and talented, I'm completely in awe of her. I can't imagine what it would be like to meet her. I'm ordinarily embarrassingly starstruck whenever I encounter anyone with the slightest bit of fame - but Julie Andrews, oh, my stars. It wouldn't be pretty.

Anyhow, the van is almost packed, the kids will get here with their stuff soon, and then I'll take it easy, go to bed super-early, we'll leave at 8 sharp tomorrow morning. I'm back late Friday night. Take care until then!