"Holy smokes, how many is that? Dominic, Jonathan, Hailey, Cassie, Francesca, Cody, TJ, Ella, plus one on the way. Nine all under five. That means starting in 2021, we start attending high school graduation parties like it is our job. Instead of publishing a guidebook on the amenities of the various maternity wards, we can publish a book on high school graduations. We can have features on the best place to park, average length of ceremonies, who has the best punch, which bleachers are the most comfortable and which you should bring a cushion to. haha. It is so weird because this whole crowd and future crowd members will learn about 9/11, but never have experienced it, they will ask us what it was like, where we were? We are living history and could possibly be interviewed as primary sources for school projects - ugh we are old. haha. Either a woman in the No.2 office or an African-American in the No. 1 office will not be groundbreaking and they will ask us what the big deal was. Their first cars might be hybrid/ethanol/electric hand me-downs from their parents. Can you imagine us plugging our car into the wall? They will do it, and they will not think twice about it. I can imagine them forgetting to plug it in, and calling each other for a ride to school, because the car is dead. "You forgot again!" "If you can not be responsible enough to plug it in, then maybe you are not ready for a car!" Haha. It would be the equivalent of us being teenagers and riding around on E, taking a chance that it wouldn't run out of gas. Who am I kidding? I would forget to plug it in. haha. Oh well... I love you to the moon and back a thousand times. See we are not that old. We weren't alive when they went to the moon. Except you were born after space shuttles left the earth and I was three when the first one went. So, that makes me the wise old uncle, and you not the as wise but still pretty smart aunt. haha."
Josh also called this morning and we chatted for a nice amount of time. I hadn't spoken to him in 19 days, so it was really exciting. Even better was that I had taken the day off to "recover" from yesterday's adventures. (I did manage to babysit all of the nieces and nephews on my side, along with visiting the newest ones yesterday!) Since I was off, I had more time to talk with him, and fewer interuptions.
He is doing well for the most part. Each day is frustrating. A lot of "broken promises"... still no day off. A lot of "rumor has it" that ends up just being rumors. He continues to keep everyone entertained and trys to make light of every situation. Several have asked him or commented "what are we going to do when we don't see you everyday?"
He said for the most part, this is the beginning of the end of their time there. We do not have any information on when they might be home. No one really knows, as we have heard a large range of time. From what we know, the replacements are "on schedule" so we will keep our fingers crossed.
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