Goodbyes Make Me Crazy

It may or may not still be a ways away but my Mother's Helper (nanny/cleaning lady) will be leaving us. She is expecting and will eventually be returning to her home country where she plans to build a home with her husband-to-be and raise her children. She has a 4 1/2 year-old boy already there with her sister so it's more than understandable why she'd go home and with the new baby more than ever so.

This will be the second person I have daily contact with like this that I'll have to say goodbye to in just about as many years. Not good. I am horrible at this; it just breaks my heart to say goodbye to people I love and am grateful for. She's such a great helper (I don't have to tell her what to do; she just knows what's needed) and she's SO good with my boys. Dylan, in particular, will be very sad. Thank God he'll be going to school in September (or January, at the latest) and maybe when she leaves in the Summer of '09 (if she really does stay that long), it won't be too bad. Hey, maybe she'll decide not to leave at all. You never know. I can only hope but whatever she decides is best for her and her family, I shall support. She deserves that and then some. We love you, Tita!