leavin' for a week and love continued

I'll be gone for a week-- off to Holland to be interviewed on a popular radio show. It's the first time I make this long trip without my kids and while it is more relaxing to do the 12-15 hour journey by myself, I know it will be plenty lonely, too. Funny thing...once you have kids of your own, you can't imagine your life without them anymore and when it is forced upon you, like with this trip, it feels awkward, scary and incomplete.
My husband and I went through some major long-distance dating and every time we were apart, we felt like only half a person...maybe that's what love is, namely only ever perfect when it feels imperfect when apart, which is how I will feel when I walk along the Amsterdam canals, the The Hague Voorhout and smell the sea I grew up with. It seems exciting now, that is, revisiting the country of my birth, but sometimes anticipation beats experience...as the thought of being without my family will never be as good as anticipated. Where are you Lynn Ruth?