I faced one of my worst fears over the last two weeks.

James was sick, I was sick, and Jason was out of town training with the Guard. Yikes! Suddenly I realized how very far away all of our family is. We made it, but I did have to call in reinforcements- Jason's mom, then Jason. (I got him to come home early- luckily, they finished training early and he was able to come home.) But we made it! And we are all healthy now! (Including Jason, who caught the flu from me! Oops!)

It is amazing to me that James will be nine months old next week. He is growing up so fast! He is crawling everywhere, and pulling up on everything. Now we are seeing his stubborn side- when he wants something, he goes for it- no matter how many times we stop him! Needless to say, I don't relax as much as I used to! But it is so much fun, too!

Hopefully, things will start to slow down here- and there will be lots of pictures to follow!