Nine links

The man of the house has left the...house. The girls and I are missing him, and nine days seem awfully long to the young (and hey, the old too). SO! We made this little paper chain with nine little links, and we hung it from the windows that line our kitchen and look out onto our play room and out over our yard. Every morning when my sleepy little girls wake up and have their toast and their tea and their frozen strawberries, they will cut one link from this chain.

Bela added a little message and a happy face to the last link, the one we will cut next Saturday morning when we wake up and know that later that day we will drive to the airport and pick up Dad.