Countdown

I couldn't even begin to explain how excited I am, that in fifty days I will be back home.  I miss my family.  I miss Lake Superior.  I miss that simple, ridiculous town.  I go through waves of homesickness.  It is getting easier though, something I never thought would happen.  Maybe I'm just finally growing up.  Its my Grandma Johnson's birthday tomorrow and I would love nothing more than to be there for her birthday dinner.  We are big on birthday dinners in our family.  If there is not a birthday that month, we'll make up an excuse to get together.  And on the Honkanen side, my grandparents just returned from Alabama.  They've been there since the fall, which means I haven't seen them since August and my return in June will make it almost a full year.  Not cool. 

I have begun the countdown.  I may as well start packing.  Just kidding.  I'll start packing at the four week mark.  Laugh, no?  Whats even more exciting is knowing for the first time in as long as I can remember, our entire family and pretty-much-family friends will be together, reunited this July.  They'll come from all over the map, and knowing they're coming to celebrate Nate and I gets me all teary.  Is it July yet?