The turkey is roasted, the aroma of apple pie is filling the air, and the family is piling in. Everyone is coming for a Bon Voyage dinner. Eleven of us in total. Daughters, Erica and Kerry, their husbands Joe and Todd, and all 5 grandkids will hang out, play, and eat themselves silly. Ayren’s 13th birthday is tomorrow and he will get his new bicycle tonight. He needed it since he is getting so tall that his knees are hitting his old bikes handlebars.
Everyone wants us to have a great time while we are gone but there is an unspoken uneasiness that you can just feel. It’s strange. No one likes to talk about it, but the kids hate the idea that we will be so far away for so long and in the same breath they are tickled for us to be able to see the country.
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