Birthday wishes

I want to send out a big ol' "Happy Birthday" to my Dad, Grandma, and niece, Katie. They all have birthdays this week so they are on my mind. It's times like these when I feel a bit isolated from my family and friends. One main reason is that it's unbelievably expensive to send a birthday card from Panama to the U.S. Besides all of the cards we can get here are in the Spanish language.

Last year, I was with my brother, Jeff and his family in Tennessee for Labor Day weekend, and then up to PA for my Dad and Grandmas birthday. That seems like a loooooooong time ago, now. But it was one of the unexpected blessings of our delayed departure for Brazil. Now here we are a year later, looking to come back to the U.S. soon.

If you're interested, here's a quick link to my blog entry that I posted exactly one year ago. Click here.