10!

It's been quite a week for Joe. On Tuesday, he had his first baseball game as a Kansas City Royal. He plays for the miracle league and honestly, he is the miracle league. He was awesome and literally fielded every ball hit to the outfield and proudly tells everyone that he hit the pitcher in the " "'s with a line drive. We celebrated his 10th birthday yesterday and I believe it was his best one yet and on Sunday, he leaves for Springhill camp for 6 days.

In preparation for Camp, Joe has been in "mommy boot camp" for the past two weeks or so. I'm so use to doing everything for him that I forget that he can do so many things for himself. So, I have been trying to fit in years of independence into two weeks. He's doing great but it's been very emotional for me. It's been wonderful to see how independent he can be and how very important it is for him to be able to take care of some basis needs but it's also so very hard to let go. There's been many tears around our house and most of them have been mine. The boys have started to voice their concerns about him being gone for 5 nights without any of us. I've reassured them that the worse case scenario would be that we would go and pick him up (we are not telling him that). We won't make him stay there if he really wants to come home. I really believe that he will handle this separation better than the rest of us.

So, please keep ALL of us in your prayers this weekend as we send our Joe off to "sleepover" camp.