Business Meetings

You are 2 plus a couple months old. So this is certainly not the first time I've been away for a long stretch of time since you've been born. In fact its the third time I've been gone for a week long business trip (BIO's annual meeting each time). But this one was harder.

Partly because you change so much now -- behaviors and mannerisms and language. Mostly its because I think you realized I was gone. That was hard. You are old enough to know I'm missing, but not old enough to understand explanations or to be aware of when I'm coming back.

I really missed your adventures -- especially climbing the ladder to the bunk bed at the Struass beach house while your mom was in the bathroom. But I know there are more to come.