September 13, 2009 - 6:51am.

The Revie household is quiet on this Sunday morning. Sleep alludes me as my overactive brain has kicked into high gear. Today is a life-changing day for our family.

In a scant seven hours, we'll be leaving to travel to Toronto International Airport. There - we will deposit our baby girl, Laura as she leaves for a land full of adventure and excitement. Things will never be the same - then again - they're not supposed to be, are they?

My mother's heart is beating wildly with a plethora of emotions. I am fiercely proud of our daughter, who has overcome some significant challenges in her life and has persevered through all the mounds of paperwork and government hoops to keep the wheels rolling - with determination, foresight, planning and determination, she is on her way to Leeds England for her third year of University studies.

Wow! It's August 22, 2009 - that's just nuts! Seems like summer took so long to get here - it boggles my mind it's almost over...and with fall this year, comes one of the biggest changes in our lives - GULP!

The daughter, Laura will be departing our scene on September 13th, travelling approximately 5,560 kilometers to attend Leeds' University. Yes - our baby is literally flying the coop! My insides are bursting with a plethora of emotions - love; immense proudness; faith; hope; trust; anxiety; sadness; happiness....gee - I feel like an emotional schizophrenic.

Life change happens, doesn't it? We never know where life will take us. If you asked me if I thought my grounded, home-body daughter would travel half-way across the world for a ten month period to study, I would have laughed and replied, 'not a chance.' And yet - it's about to happen.

OMIGOSH! So, last July I got a Wii-Fit for my birthday. I was excited because this was exactly what I needed and I was going to use it! Well, I stepped on my darling Wii this week and after he 'oooed', he said, "it's been 183 days since I've seen you!" What!?!? That's not possible is it. Alas, a computer or something like a computer, never lies.
This made me think it's probably been that long since I did the blog thing on my website. I'm beginning to surmise that blogging isn't for everyone. How do people find time to blog....even my last blog was titled, 'too busy to blog.'
Well - here I am. Once again I am privileged to be writing for our local newspaper, The Guelph Mercury as a Community Editorial Board member. I love this job! Someone writes up a schedule; tells you when your article is due and then releases me to write whatever I want. I truly thrive on deadlines and being accountable. When I'm not - it just doesn't seem to happen for me.

One thing that really used to bug me in the work world (there were many), was the people who used the familiar rant of 'I'm too busy.' You know the ones - always seemed to have time to chat, or eat out for lunch, yet when it came to work - too busy! Now I find myself in the uncomfortable place of saying that for the last month and a half I've been too busy to blog! Seems God always brings the imperfections I'm so quick to find in others back to haunt me!

This is the third day in a row I wanted to add a new blog to my site. The best laid plans of mice and men….
Day one had me technically challenged in trying to remember how to add a blog. I needed to wait until after work to ask my technical genius of a husband how to do it. By that time, I was exhausted, mentally and physically and couldn’t remember what I wanted to blog about in the first place. I know it was really great stuff - it just wouldn’t come to me. It had to be truthful, because, as my great aunt used to say, ‘if it was a lie, the devil would have helped me!’
Yesterday was too crazy busy to do much of anything except work and come home. I did manage to find time to sleep through the Blue Jays baseball game last night though.