Friends - Old and New

Marty left for the airport very early Monday morning.  Josie was still sick with the stomach bug but Benjamin was up and ready on time for school.  We rode together, just the two of us and we snapped a quick picture to send to Marty who by then was just about to take off from the airport.
Josie stays by herself all the time by herself now but since she was sick I didn't feel right leaving her all alone while I was an hour away downtown.  So I stayed home with Josie and sent Simone on her way solo to discover the tourist sights that I've already seen tons of times.  Thankfully, Simone is a seasoned traveler and had no problem going on her own and navigating transportation and maps.

It was a quiet day at the house as Josie worked on homework literally the entire school day.  I'm not sure where she would have found this time to work on homework had she not been sick and I would have questioned her sickness had I not seen how sick she was the night before and had I not known how much she despises missing school. 

That evening I had planned a small dinner with a few of my favorite friends here.  It was really fun to for my old and new lives to collide in this way with some of the people dearest to me.
We went to bed not knowing if Josie would go to school on Tuesday.  I really hoped so for her sake - she hates missing school and they had their school music concert that night.  She would really hate to miss it.  But for my sake too.  I was disappointed that I wasn't able to meet Simone in Copenhagen due to Marty's trip so I consoled myself by knowing we had 5 full school days that we could play. Well, now one was taken up already by sickness.  I was really hoping a second one wouldn't be too.