My daughter, Annie, will come home to Oregon in one more week. She and her Marine Corps husband, Sgt. Erik Tuttle, and two children, left North Carolina today to drive across the country. Erik will be here a week, then deploy to Iraq for his second tour, and Annie and the kids will live with us while he’s there. While here, she’ll be looking for a suitable piece of land on which to build their future homestead when Erik gets out of the Marine Corps in another year and a half.

We’re excited as heck! Sam and Robby are giving up their bedrooms at the end of the house. Sam has moved into the guest room, and Rob will move into the two-story clubhouse the boys have been building for a couple of years. Between getting ready for their arrival and the current house remodeling job we’re involved in, my house is a wreck. But what the heck! It’s a momentous occasion!

Annie has been an editor-at-large for BHM for years, having written her first article for the magazine at the age of 7. Now, at age 26, she will take over as the full-time managing editor. It’s something I’ve been looking forward to for years. She is supertalented and it will take a great deal of stress off me and Lenie. I will still guide the magazine closely, which is something I’m destined to do til I die, but I’ll be able to more easily impart my insight and technique to Annie during the next year.

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