Embracing Home Again After Vacation

You know how

when you get home from vacation

you just have to stand in your house for awhile

and remember who you were when you left

and why everything is the way it is?

You know how

you walk from room to room, and see everything as if for the first time?

You know how

you look forward to seeing the pets again

and how happy they are to see you

and how you forgot how soft their fur is

and how much you missed them?

You know how

you put off unpacking and instead go

outside, check on the plants, see what bloomed (or died) in your absence?

Yeah. That’s me now.

Newly home from a few days in Rehoboth Beach with G’s family.

It was so good to see everyone again.

And talk and play and walk and eat.

G laughs with random kid who joined our group

G and her mother