The Countdown Begins

Mike left on Sunday... at frickin 6:00 AM, which meant that we had to be at Wheeler at 3:30 AM. Fun.

NOT.

And so it begins - from now until he comes home on leave (hopefully February 2010), nothing but emails and phone calls when possible and care packages and praying.

His name is in the bulletin for prayers at St. Ann's and at Holy Ghost Church in Kula.

Niho will continue to ask "where's Daddy?" for the next couple weeks. The good answer seems to be "He went to work for a long time." Niho has also started coming downstairs to sleep with me at about 5 AM - something he hasn't done for months. He misses him.

I will blog here - and read if you'd like. I'm cocooning for a bit this first week he's gone. And then it'll get better.