Home For Holidays

We've been having to get used to life without mom, and it's a crazy and a little bit disconcerting and depressing. We're more than capable of dealing with the logistical stuff of running the household, but mom is definitely the glue that holds us together. I think the best way to put is that we can survive with her absent, but when she's here, we can really live our lives. We sure do miss her.

She was away for about two weeks about a month back, then she came home for what seemed like a couple of days before she had to head back to her parent's house again. Talk about a whirlwind - here today, gone tomorrow. She'd been away for another couple of weeks before she returned home for Christmas. Traveling has been a challenge recently, as well, because the weather has not fairly rough, with lots of winter storms. Her first flight back had several cancelations, and she had to change her plans this last time because yet another big storm came through, but she made it safely (thankfully). Today, Christmas, we have yet another storm, so she just squeezed in to get home. Whew!

Now that she's home we can resume our normal lives, which to some may seem boring but suits us just fine - just hanging out and enjoying each other's company. Nothing fancy or crazy, at least not most of the time, but when you really get down to it, when you can celebrate your time together doing next to nothing, then you're really onto something, because that's what most of our lives are really about, right?

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Until the next time, thanks for reading, and thanks to Sarah Brighton for the pic.