Today Chelsea came to visit.
She is feeling the void left by Ashleigh’s departure more than anyone else. She can’t walk into our house without a sadness coming over her. Each night she asks if it is less than one hundred sleeps until Ashleigh returns. One hundred is the biggest number when you are just six.
She wanted to show Ashleigh her new dancing shoes and her new Irish dancing moves.
“Don’t worry”, she said. “She can just see me dance at my concert.”
It almost broke her heart when we said that she wouldn’t be home in December for her concert.
I hated having to tell her that…
Peppermint Patcher 