Au Revoir!

At last this middle section of the year is coming to a close, and with it the monotony of life in Saline! In retrospect, perhaps it was not nearly as monotonous as I made it out to be whilst living through it, but I am thankful to be taking off once again, this time to St. Louis to participate in the Urbana Student Missions Conference!

These past few months certainly have had many things for which to be thankful for...

My very first time ever voting...

A trip to Chicago avec mon frère.

Many many walks through the deadened Michigan woods

Time with this lovely lady and many other wonderful friends

A birthday...

A disguised Kathryn in the mall

Wednesday afternoons (and more time than that too!) spent with my best friend!

A great many excellent trips to the movie theatre (a rare happening in my life) to view the Hobbit, Lincoln, and Les Mis. All highly recommended and most fantastically done.

Visits from a number of super duper awesome friends

A trip to Grand Rapids

But these were the people who I spent the most time with these past few weeks...lots and lots of time. Top secret sibling meetings, sibling squabbles, sibling pranks, sibling pow-wows, etc.

And they are probably the people who I will miss the most upon departure.

Throughout it all, though, eight little beings who are very dear to me were constantly in my mind and on my heart. They were always there. Always. They will come with me to Urbana, and to France, and beyond.

The next time I write, it will likely be from across the seas in the Alps of France. And so for now, au revoir!