A Sad Day

Becca came home from school crying today.  She realized that she was going to miss Field Day at school and was quite upset about it.  Becca is missing the last week of school because we leave for China on May 27th (Field Day is the 30th).  In her words, "I've been looking forward to this all year!" While the tears were flowing out came many of the other things that she has thought of that she will miss: VBS, friends, birthday parties, her school, her teacher.  We sat down and cuddled and cried together as we talked about how it is hard to leave things.  I told her that I was going to miss things as well (friends, family, our church).  But Becca did perk up when I showed her that our passports had arrived with our Chinese visas!  She was excited to see the visa page and wanted to know how it worked.  "Will they have to stamp it?  Does the visa have to go on a certain page?  Does each country have a special page reserved for it in our passports?"  ..... This will be life for a while .... Ups and downs.  Sadness and excitement.