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| Max, Jaeden, Robert and Tejas. Last discipleship group before summer break. |
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| Hanging out at the Museum of Islamic Art |
The sun was just coming up as we piled into the car on Monday to head to the airport. I'd been up since 3 am. dreading the day. Robert climbed up front with Mike so he could plug his music from his phone and Sallie and I sat in the back. She leaned her head down against my arm and I just sat there stroking her hair. These two weeks with her flew by and I was barely holding it together. And this time Robert was heading out with her. Mike and I avoided talking about the looming departures all weekend before they left.
We did things differently this summer. Sending Robert ahead with Sallie, me staying here with Mike for the summer, this is a first. Once I get used to the cave like quiet and no more taking to or picking up from school crazy drives...I'm sure it will be nice. Not really. But I'm still glad to be here with Mike. Summers apart get awfully long and this one has started out particularly challenging. There have been sweeping lay offs across Doha. Many of our friends have found themselves jobless and are packing up to leave. Mike is also needing a new project to go to as his is wrapping up and he is to be off it by the end of June. We are praying for a position here but so far it's pretty quiet.
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| Yes, we will miss her. She makes us laugh. |
After we hugged the kids and sent them thru customs we had coffee and waited for some friends who were on their way with their college kids as well. Daniel, one of Robert's closest friends, just graduated and Mike and I wanted to give him one last hug as well. Lori was barely holding it together but we all got thru it without embarrassing the kids too much.
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| And we will miss Robert and his buddies making noise upstairs. Laughing, and hanging out. It is just way tooooo quiet. |
