Happy 4th!

This past weekend was a short one compared with most people as I had to work yesterday.  However with the unemployment  rate at 9% or better, I am grateful to be working.  Saturday we worked around the house and Sunday we went up to my in-laws camp for some wake-boarding.  Both boys along with their girlfriends joined us at the lake.

I have been mentoring a young lady from the cadet program and we have been communicating on a daily basis.  She was raised in the inner-city and has experienced  much more pain and hardship in her short 17 years then many would experience in an entire lifetime.  I view her as I would my own daughter (for the most part) but I am aware that she could develop more romantic feelings towards me.  I have been very careful to keep our conversations free of any hint of intimacy and she has not indicated anything other then an interest in a fatherly figure.  She is traveling abroad for the next few weeks with no access to phone or email and I would be less then honest if I didn't say that I will miss our daily exchange.  She has proved to be a source of joy for me and I look forward to her return