Can you do that?”My immediate thought was, This is just the opportunity we need. A week in a hotel with Brian.“Sure, Uncle Tim I can do that. Soun...s like fun,”“Excellent,” he said, “Donna will fill you in on exactly what you will need to do."The evening of the departure Mom drove me to the airport. On the ride, she casually asked me, “Are you excited about making the trip?”"I am," I replied. "It will be fun being in a city where I have never been to before."“Especially being there with Brian. Suddenly she stopped in front of a shoe store and announced she wanted to try on some shoes, mainly some high boots. This was a shoe store where you get to sit down and have a salesperson wait on you, it also had a section of womens clothing and as we entered I saw why she wanted to go in this store. There was only one salesperson in the store and he was a young good looking guy. Beth and I sat down and this guy comes over and introduces himself to us. His name is Ken and Beth tells him she is. Both girls kept their "A" averages and began their summer reading program for me. Laura was also watching over it and put some books into the group for this summer. She started her extra week as a teacher. On Tuesday, she brought home a contract offer. The handbook had been changed and the contract included new handbooks. I printed off an extra paragraph granting her the right to teach at her school where April continued to be a student. She took it in the next day. Late that afternoon, I. Valerie, Michael and Tera stood off to the side. Shifting his gaze from his companions to Michaels, he was hit for the first time with the truth of his life, that soon the future would come, and it would be in someone else’s hands what path that future followed. The thought brought both relief and sadness. Relief that the burdens of leadership would no longer be his, that his time would be his own without the responsibilities that he had borne for so long. But there was also the sadness, that.