Yesterday I waved goodbye to Dylan as he set off for a week in Boston with his Grandad! I felt absolutely sick as I said goodbye to him, it felt so wrong that he had left to go so far away by himself, for so long! This will be the longest I've ever been without him by far.
Bless him, he was very good about the whole situation. It was his choice to go and I had predicted he'd wobble beforehand and freak out, but he didn't. He was 'nervecited' about going. He knew he was going to have a great time & he loves to fly on planes so he was pretty brave. He had a few tears as he went to get on to the plane but Dad reports that he's arrived safely & is happy and relaxed!
The airline were great - they supplied me with a boarding pass to take him as far as the door of the plane. They looked after him on the flight well and they handed him safely to Dad the other end. Flying as an 'unaccompanied minor' is clearly pretty cool.
Harry is extremely annoyed that he's not gone too and also that he doesn't have Dylan here to play with.
I am finding looking after Tabitha & Harry a lot more hard work without Dylan here, he enables me to do the tiniest of taken-for-granted tasks like load the laundry or go to the loo which I otherwise can't get to with Tab being demanding!
Posted by katie at July 31, 2008 12:16 PM