Well it happend! I knew it would but hoped it wouldn't have come this quickly. What is IT? It's Joe's 9 day trip to China! I know now that I must really be "in love" since I already miss the heck out of him and we're only 18 hours in to the trip!

Macy and I had fun today tracking his flight from Atlanta to Shanghai! It's really pretty cool that you can watch the flight move! So I'll be honest, I really am a bit nervous about being here alone. Joe was sweet enough to make sure I have the cell phone numbers from his team at his office, just in case!

Last night (Tuesday) we went to Johns school for a kind of "Meet the Teacher" night just for parents. The kids played on the play ground and I got to go talk with 4 of his teachers. English, Math, Science, and Social Studies. I am so impressed with his school. There is so much hope coming out of the mouths of these teachers! All they want is for the students to find success. Interesting, they have a lot different philosiphy on homework than what we've been used to in Thatcher schools. They say there are studies to say that kids don't need the homework, they learn better in the classroom. Wow!! I'm pretty excited about this....I guess I'm just a slacker mom! I think Leslie and Sicily will have the same type of thing at their school soon.