Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!
KATIE HAD HER BABY!!!!
I wish I could have been there, but she understood that none of us could, I mean being in Japan, that’s a bit difficult, right? Anyway, it’s a healthy girl, about 8 pounds or so.
She named her Sabrina Lily!!!
Awwww!!!!!
I wish we could be there because she’s pretty exhausted and could use a little help, but… it is what it is. We’ll help when we come back, I guess. She sent a picture!!! So cute!!! Alll the girls were cooing and awwing and we haven’t even met her yet!!!
David didn’t really know what the big deal is, but he’s a boy, and who can blame him for that??
She’s in touch with the pastor and we’re all figuring it out, because she’s still a single mom, and… sigh.
Sabby told her she gets paid maternity leave, because we take care of our people. I don’t know what she’s going to do for child care and stuff, but I guess we’ll figure it out.
I just wish… I just wish.
She’s not upset or anything, though. She knows we’re in Japan, and, well, not much we can do.
Anyway, Baker’s in charge at the shop for now, and things seem to be humming along pretty well. So there’s that.
So today we all took the Tsukuba Express again, up to Wan Wan Land. I know I saw it last year, but none of the other girls did, and I thought they’d really like it. And they did!!! There were all sorts of dogs to pet, and there was a cat show, and the animals are pretty well taken care of, so it was time well spent. Yu really doesn’t like animals, but even she had an okay time, she thought the cats were really smart. Crystal LOVES all the dogs and she was really sad to leave. She told me on the way back that maybe she wants to be a veterinarian.
I think she should!!!
After we got back, we had ramen for dinner (Japan makes the best ramen), then Jack and I talked. A lot. We talked before he went to school. He’s… afraid he’s going to lose me. I’m kind of driven, I have a pretty good idea of what I’m going to do, I have a lot of options and opportunities… and he, well, kinda doesn’t right now. It’s not that he can’t! He’s not dumb!!! He.. just doesn’t know what he wants to do, and sometimes he doesn’t seem driven to find out.
I’m not mad at him for that, but he’s kinda mad at himself.
And he’s going to graduate in a year like I will, and he really does kind of need to figure out what he wants to do. Not because I want him to, but because he needs to, for himself.
But we’re okay. At least for now. We still have college kinda hanging over our heads. But let’s be honest, it’s probably a problem we’d have to solve anyway. I mean, even if I stayed in the states, maybe I’d go to, I dunno, Stanford or something, and he’d go to… I dunno… UT or Indiana or something, and we’d still be apart. We’ll have to solve it, this just makes it a little more difficult, I guess.
We’ve only got a few more days left here and then we’re going home. Sabby’s talking about doing a road trip back to Texas instead of flying. That might be fun!!! I’ve never seen the Grand Canyon!!! Though Arizona in the summer…
Time for bed.