That Boy!

Today Skip and I drove up from LA to go visit Brian in Santa Barbara, where he's been going to school. It was a nice drive but the weather was a wee bit too nippy for my liking (especially considering that it hit 90 degrees up where I live and I was insanely jealous as I could be!). However, seeing my boy made everything worthwhile.

Brian is as happy as he could be. He's living in an absolute all-out party town with two Swedish room mates that are a complete riot. The three of them get along famously and it's such a treat to see them interact.

When Bri lived up in Idaho he had the room mate from hell. That combined with the rules and restrictions of Rexburg just made that situation so darn toxic for my son. He's thriving in this environment!

Second, Brian is in school doing what his heart screams for him to be doing. Oh, I fought it tooth and nail for as long as I could. Underwater dive welding is an extremely dangerous profession, but it's what my son is absolutely set on. Once I gave up resistance, the boy has been happier than I've ever seen him. It makes me happy to not receive those panic phone calls, "MOM! I'm in trouble. HELP!" I only get my fun loving boy calling me to see how I'm doing and for him to easily chat about the goings on of his life.

Now, the semester is winding down and, instead of paying for Bri to stay idle while there's no school, he's got an opportunity to go to Sweden with one of his roomies for a month and explore another part of the world. He's so excited he can hardly stand himself. I'm so excited (and a bit jealous, I must admit) for him. He's promised me that he'll take LOTS of pictures and share his adventures with me through his photo journal.

Today I saw him for the last time before his big adventure. My heart is in a happy place. He's chatting again with a girl that I adore and there's absolutely no contention surrounding him when we interact. Everything seems so pleasant. Just the way life should be. Please, God, tell me that this is the beginning of an amazing life for him AND the rest of us that love him to bits!