Reading today: "The American Revolution" by Gordon S. Wood (for upcoming workshop)
Music today: ears ringing from last night
TV today: "RV 2004" on HGTV
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I have gained a new sister-in-law. My BIL Scott wed his beloved on July 31 in Atlanta, GA. Lots of small things occurred that made me very glad I was already married and had the wedding stuff behind me. Mainly, the shuttle bus didn't show on time so ALL the guests were late. I mean, we almost had a wedding without a minister... and Scott apparently was trying to beat us by having a wedding without any guests. Luckily my other SIL and I had taken a cab to the church. :) My new SIL was beautiful, giddy, and according to another guest, "like a teenager in love." Pretty neat for a couple in their late 30s, first marriage for both.

When we first left Roman, however, I cried. I missed him already! The two mornings of sleeping in somewhat made up for it, though! We slept in Saturday until quarter to 10am. We couldn't believe it! We were very thrilled to see our boy again today. We had a report that he has learned to twirl... spins around and giggles, spins the other way and gets real dizzy. He just yelled at us in the car. We are pleased to be back at home. We are not real anxious to do much traveling again farther than a couple hours!

One last thought. When we were in the Atlanta airport this morning, we encountered the USO. Apparently a company of soldiers was being sent back to Kuwait after some R&R back in the States. As they were arriving from all over, the USO stood at the gateway and cheered EVERY SINGLE soldier that came off the escalator. It was really touching to see. Later we had taken a wrong turn and ended up on the floor where the soldiers were congregating. Another USO member said to us, "going back to Kuwait?" We laughed and Doug said, "we leave that to the professionals" and wished the soldiers there good luck.

For some reason, this following vision has stayed in my mind. When we went back downstairs and got in the LONG line for security check (took 20 minutes for us to get through), I glanced back up at the second floor railing. There were 4 soldiers leaning over the rail, watching the people go by. And I thought to myself, this could be the last view of the States these men get... people rushing around, trying to catch flights and griping about security checks, not giving a second glance to these soldiers in their desert camouflage. These soldiers are going BACK to Kuwait, whether the general populace supports the war or not, to support the other men in action. And I'm betting very few people in that airport gave those soldiers a thought. And that is so sad.