This past weekend was hard.  My cousin, the kids dad, in order to help with some of their financial troubles is taking a job overseas for a year.  He left Saturday for that year.  A year away is hard for an adult but even harder for three kids, two of whom are still babies.  The youngest one kept calling me DaDa Saturday.  I think she could tell something was going on.  This next year is going to be very hard and long for those three kids I’m afraid.

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