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Elli left for her trip to Costa Rica this morning. Sigh........ Don and I didn't say much on the car ride back to Mill Valley. It will take a day or so to get used to her not being here. It's not like she's ever home that much any way. But she's in our town. Or close by. Not 3,919 miles away. Eeks! I am really proud of her for wanting to go on this adventure with Cross-Cultural Solutions . She worked hard for months to raise the money needed for the trip with her GoFundMe  campaign. Now she's on her way with one of her best friends. They will be with a group of teens from all over the United States. Their purpose is to lend a hand to under-resourced organizations. It will be an eye opening experience being in a country where 1 in 5 people live in extreme poverty. Their home base is in Cartago, an historic, bustling city located within a more rural region of the country. The volunteer assignments will be in Orosi, one of the oldest communities in C...

Yesterday I decided I would make breakfast casserole for Father's Day. It's tasty. Easy. And can be made ahead. What's not to love, right? So I went to the trusty blog to get the recipe . I then realized I hadn't posted anything since January. It made me a little sad. I used to love writing posts. I would get up every morning with tons of ideas bursting in my head. And then slowly life, and work, got in the way and I started writing less frequently. Then barely at all. So I started reading some old posts. I love all the random incidents I wrote about because those are always the stories we remember, right? The tales we love telling over and over. They're what make us smile and laugh. And you all know how much I like to laugh. Like the time Elli gave me a Performance Review  at home. It still cracks me up. And I got nervous reading it again- just like the first time! And then there's the time the police thought Elli had been kidnapped. Ok. I realize ...