My brother...

For those of you who know me, you know that I have a love/hate relationship with my big brother Mike. Well today, I got some very exciting news from him. While the news was exciting for him, it was also very sad for me and the rest of his South Florida friends and family. See Mike's company has transferred him to Shreveport, Louisianna. He is thrilled not only because of the wonderful opportunitites it presents, but also because his bestest friend, his wife and their 3 kids all moved there about 4 months ago (they too were transferred) and Mike has been missing them much. Every time I think of my brother not being here at family occassion's and dinner's I well up with tears. Especially cause since my surgery in November, I feel that we have grown closer. We have even started going out to dinner's and movies together. I am also sad because Shreveport is so expensive to fly to and it's not really close enough to drive to. Plus, my brother doesn't get a lot of vacation time from his company so him visitng us won't occur that often. He even indicated that he doesn't know if he can even come down for Thanksgiving or Christmas!!! Anyway, the bottom line is while I am happy for him, I will miss him greatly and life will not be the same without him. And Tonka will miss him too!!