Well, it’s not been the easiest few days for me and I’m sure the next few days won’t be easy for that matter either.  With Rowan going home today I’ve been pretty teary – and of course, if you know me at all, by teary I mean practical hysteria.  Last night on the way home from Pearland I just broke down and cried the whole way home.  Col just held my hand and let me cry and I did all I could not to give the game away to Row in the back seat – I didn’t want to upset him.

Around 1.30am (when we discovered that Rowan was actually leaving at 11am instead of 3pm like we thought), I climbed the stairs to bed and the dam broke again.  I cried for an hour solid until I passed out from exhaustion.  What a horrible night.

Today, I held out pretty good until the security check point in the airport, when I hugged him goodbye, I didn’t want to let him go and pretty soon, both he and I were crying and Col wasn’t far off it either.  It was horrible.  I cried pretty much the whole way home and for an hour after we got home.  It’s been a long time since I cried like that – if ever.  Col has, as always, been great, giving me cuddles when I need them and telling me that it’s ok to cry but it’s pretty sucky all round.

I love having people out here, especially when they are eager to see what I am doing with my life out here and meet my friends.  We have 2 groups of friends here, we have my SSA ladies and their hubbies who we hang out with and we have his group of colleagues and their hubbies who we hang out with – Row has gone down a storm with both, everyone loved him.  The first group sang with him, the second group played footie with him and both groups seem to agree, that he’s a great kid, some of them said they could see me in him – which was pretty nice to hear.

I think we’ve shown him a pretty good time, I’m just amazed at how fast time has flown past and how short his trip was.  There’s so much we want to show him and do with him here, but you can only fit so much in each trip – and I think we’ve done an alright job of showing him some things over here.  It’s been awesome.  I’m glad he wants to come back, I’ve missed him so badly and hate being so far away from him.

Anyways, Thursday was a pretty quiet day we just did lunch at a Brewhouse (BJ’s) and the boys played footie in Pearland.  Friday we had lunch in Panera bread – which Rowan liked much to my surprise and we headed out to the Astros -v- Brewers game.

We ended up getting a pretty good deal on the tickets to the baseball game, we got 4 tickets, 4 hotdogs, 4 bottles of soda/pop/fizzy juice and 4 baseball caps for $80.  Ok, so the seats were practically at the roof but it was a pretty dang good deal and being so high up (aside from bugging Rowan’s phobia) was grand for us!

The game itself was pretty good, it took a little while to get going – like the last one, but once it did we all got in to it.  Rowan really enjoyed it and we all came away chipper with Houstons 5-0 win over Milwaukee.

Saturday started off somewhat somber as Col and I went to the funeral of a colleague of Col’s who’d passed away a few days prior which we followed with lunch at Hooters – the polar opposite of somber! lol!

The food was ok, the boys thought it was top notch, the service was absolutely terrible and warranted – yes, you’ve guessed it.  Me writing a letter of complaint to Hooters.  On the up side Rowan and I did manage to get some T-shirts (I’ve wanted one for a while now!) although I didn’t get any pics of us in them – and I want the T-shirt Rowan got so I’ll have to go back at some stage, lol!

After lunch we got an invitation to go to the Stevensons for a game of Dominoes – which trumped either of our two Saturday night options as far as we were concerned (either a Dynamo game or another Astros game!) so we picked up some ingredients for Smores (which, as it happens we didn’t get around to making) and headed down to Pearland for an evening of fun!

Which brings us back to today and the wallowing in puddles of tears and the Hungarian Grand Prix!

What a fortnight it’s been, we’ve managed to cram so much into the time we’ve had to spend with Rowan and even managed to do a bunch of new things that neither Colin nor I had done before and although it’s been a somewhat costly 2 weeks, it was worth every single nickel and dime we spent – and then some.

I can’t wait for October to come around so I can see him (and the rest of my family) again…it can’t come soon enough – even though I’m not fully prepared for it! haha!

He’s just about to land in Toronto, so I’m gonna go text him, I miss him already…he’s a really, really great kid and I love him more than anything…