longest days

These past couple of days have been some of the longest in my life. Shelby is still in Europe when she should be home. Yesterday morning I got a phone call at 4:30am from a teary Shelby. They had arrived at Heathrow to fly home and found that their plane had been cancelled. With the misunderstanding of a 15year old, she thought that there were 8 people with bombs on her plane. I feel sick again just writing this. It was so hard to hear the fear in Shelby's voice and not be able to rush to her, to comfort her. And once she got off the phone I had no way to reach her. Nothing was better than reaching her at the hotel People to People arranged for the kids last night. She was much more calm and not so afraid anymore. We didn't know when she was going to get to come home but she was safe and that was all that mattered at this point. Shelby and I talked for quite awhile- can't wait to see that phone bill. P2P called last night and said that after a day visiting Windsor castle the kids would be flying off to Germany. They would spend the night there and they were trying to get them on a flight home on Saturday. Thankfully I got a call today that there is a flight for them tomorrow morning and Shelby should be back on NJ soil by 3:15 pm. I can't wait.