Re-entry

I woke up at 6...which under normal circumstances with the time-change would have been a huge victory. BUT, Avery had been up at 2am with diaherrea. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it to the toilet and I had a lake of poop on my bathroom floor that needed to be cleaned up. So in reality, there was not much sleep invovled before 6am.

The kids went to the basement to play. I took my beach-cruiser bike out for a ride around the bike. Eventually, everyone ended up in the playground – it wasn’t 9am yet.

Later in the day, Nina made lunch for the kids. Josh went on a bike ride. I took Charlotte and Olivia to the beach to meet friends. Avery took a 3 ½ hour nap – and that's only because we woke him up. Ewelina came over to see us and brought beautiful orchids. We set up a schedule for next week.

One observation upon re-entry is that EVERYTHING here seems big. The water and wine glasses; the bedrooms; the Refridgerator/Freezer; the cars... just everything is super-sized. At one point during the day I went to the Starbucks to get my emails since we didn't any WiFi hooked up at home yet. The coffee tasted like brown water to me.

I couldn't bear the thought of unpacking. In fact, I was physically unable to unpack because for some unimaginable reason, all the closets were full. How could we have packed up and lived away for a whole year (and with excess clothing), and still have full closets? The duffel bags and boxes in the living room remained untouched today.