Well, my beautiful daughter left the house at 4:30 a.m. this morning to get on a flight back to Japan.  I miss her already.  She literally had round the clock attention the last 24 hours of her stay here, with a friend coming in from college last night and then coming here at midnight and staying up with her till she had to leave.  I don't think her friends understand how precious her time here with us is.  While they get to come home from college on occassion, we know that we won't see our daughter again for at least a year. That is very hard. 

She spent a lot of time bonding with her youngest brother Isaac.  He will miss her this time around!