I have often wondered...

.... if one of my children were gone for a week, would it make a difference in how the rest of them get along.

This summer has been an interesting experiment.

One week my younger son was gone to camp for 5 days. Two weeks later the oldest was gone for 5 days. This week my eldest daughter will be gone 5 days. So far the biggest change was when my younger son was gone, but it'll be interesting to see what happens this week.

We are also in the process of finally making the room changes we planned in June, and we have some other family needs creating some anxiety....so this will be interesting. Unfortunately the later makes our trip planned for September delayed about a year. All in due time, right.