Wanting to Know What I Got Before It's Gone

So here I am in Italy... ya I'm a pretty lousy blogger thus far. I have missed a few days. Ah well. I will play catch-up now! Get ready for like 20 blogs in a row! lol. Imagine! Well, I will try to do my best... I know all my readers are sooooo interested in all I have to say of the past 4 days! hahaha. So let me start from the beginning...

Saying good-bye to my family was really tough. I knew that I was going to be emotional but I don't think they were ready for all the emotions I had to offer them! This was going to be my longest trip away from home. And as most of you know... I love my family soooo much. They are some of my best friends! I am the best me when with them... feeling loved & accepted. So on Sunday, the day before I left I called all my aunts & uncles to let them know I was leaving. And then I called Eddie who had been out of town for the weekend to make sure he was coming over to say goodbye. And then he said he wasn't... & the tears just streamed down my face. Of course he heard it in my voice & decided to come afterall. So that night I had dinner with my mom, her boyfriend, Eddie, Renata, Darnell & Alia. And the whole time I was in my glee... just being blessed by their presence. But when it came time to say goodbye to Eddie again, the tears came back. Its so difficult to think of a week without my big brother. I talk to him practically everyday... most of the time for nothing. And I see him at least once a week. All I was thinking was how could I go 5 weeks without him! Then I cried the next day when staying goodbye to Darnell, my mom & Renata. All where at different times too! But of course I felt like a BIG LOSER! But really... I love my family! And it is weird not calling them to share every bit of information of my life... and weird not having them around all the time.

Thankfully, I pulled myself together. But during the plane ride and had the opportunity to talk with the older man next to me. I know... I was pretty shocked myself that me, Ms. Unsocial actually talked to him. But he started to tell me how he was born in Italy but has lived in Toronto for 56 years. He tries to travel every couple of years back to see friends and family. But usually he travels with his wife. And with tears in his eyes, he shared with me how she struggled with arthritis and wasn't able to travel. And of course I felt his pain. But then he talked about his 5 children and 8 grandchildren... the winters he would spend in Mexico... and all the other life experience he had that he shares with his wife. And I told how blessed I thought he was to have such great stories to have and to share with her. And of course he smiled! He kept saying that all the fun things were coming to an end in his life. But really, I saw it as just beginning. He gets to lie there are night with his wife and giggle about all the funny things they have seen and heard! How fun is that?!?!

After talking with him... I just realized how bless we can be to have great people to share our lives with. Even though I wait for my husband... not very patiently... I am happy that God has still given me people to share my life with. I have so many wonderful memories with my family and best friends. & really, I want to savor every minute of it... because even though it will be great fun to sit and talk about everything we've seen and done... I want to make sure that we can also say that we enjoyed every moment we shared completely. Hope you do too ;)