Ciao Julia

Julia went home to Brazil last week.  It was a sad occasion.  We kept telling ourselves the Dr. Seuss quote: "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."  Just like that, she was gone, after almost exactly five months.  We hope to see her again, either in Recife or in Portugal.

The girls kept playing in her room, like she might come home, and it wasn't the same for me coming home and not being able to say "Where's the Goolia?"




She reached home safely.  Thankfully with modern technology we can keep in touch pretty easily.  She said the Sunday rosary with us and sent some nice photos of the beach.