Half of Us

Half of my family left for Arizona last Thursday. The Husband and Q flew to Arizona to visit with The Husband's grandparents for a few days. They will be home tomorrow night, just in time to spend a few hours with my husband on his 38th birthday!

So for us, it has been a girls weekend, and a somewhat lazy one at that. We spent Friday night at a friends house, then Saturday at home in the rain. Saturday night we went to dinner with my in-laws to celebrate their 39th! Anniversary. And today was spent at home, lazy, playing and watching tv. I'm now sitting here, catching up on some old tv, procrastinating, avoiding the things I really should be doing.

And, while in the midst of this diversion, I got a phone call from Arizona. It went something like this:

"Hi Mommy, did you know I don't have a loose tooth anymore?"
"Oh, did you lose your tooth?"
"I did. It came right out at the resturant, and it didn't even hurt, and it came right out, and now theres no tooth."
"Really. That's great. How does it feel to not have a tooth there?"
"Fine, Mommy. It didn't hurt at all."

There was more to it, but I was lost in silent tears and feeling bad that I wasn't there for it.

So I skyped them, while still on the phone with them, and saw it on video ... and it looks strange to not see his little chicklet of a tooth there anymore.

So ... not only is tomorrow my husbands birthday and the day they come home, but I get to see the gap in my sons beautiful grin! Tomorrow's gonna be good!