I just got an email from Lib:

Hi guys
I lost my camera.😭😰

did I mention that he’s in Strasbourg on his school trip?  with the new camera that my mom just gave 2 days before he left (him for his birthday, which was yesterday)?

the funny thing is, we gave Clem a new camera just before she went to Strasbourg when she was in the 5th grade.  and the first night she was gone, I woke up every 15 minutes freaked out that she was going to loose her new camera.  and she does have trend of loosing things, but I know I was just fixating on that in place of general anxiety over sending my 11 year old overseas to live with family we’d never met for two weeks.  she came home happy and healthy and with camera.

Lib, I was comparatively calm.  We’d met Enzo, his exchange correspondent.  We’ve done the exchange thing before.  Putting him on the plane to Strasbourg felt easy, esp compared to when Clem went and it was our first time.  and even more so when compared to putting Clem on a plane to Paris 2 months after Charlie Hebdo and 5 days after the GermanWings crash.

And he never loosed things.  ever.  so I barely talked to him about making sure he always put his camera, or notebook, or wallet, etc back into his backpack, not just down on the bench or table next to the backpack.

sigh