Home Again.

I don't know why I clean up my house and make sure everything is in order before I leave. The moment I walk in the door from a trip and unload the car, the house looks just the same if not worse than when I cleaned it up before we all left. I just don't know why. I guess it would be doubly worse if I didn't clean it the first place. Oh well. That has to be some cosmic law of the universe that a once cleaned house will be quadruple-y worse upon your return. (Other cosmic laws include when you leave your son clothed in the bathroom and presume he will take off his clothes and then step into the bathtub, he will confuse a couple of steps and leave the clothes on while entering the tub. This however, is just a cosmic law and by no means not something that happened in my house tonight. Except I do have photo evidence and I do have some 4T clothing items hanging to dry in my bathroom right now).

We're back from a wonderful trip down south. It's always nice visiting Corie and her family. It's like a vacation. Nice place, good meals, great conversation. I couldn't ask for more. Dave was away coaching football camp for four days (on a military base, no less. I found out what a cadence run was. Well, I knew what it was, I just didn't know that the thing that it was had a name), so rather than be home by my lonesome, the kids and I endured the long drive in the heat with an un-air conditioned car and made it safe and sound. James is really fond of his cousins, Lily and Tessa. Clara is really fond of her cousin, Faith, more affectionately known as "Bee-be.....Bee-be...." The three of them are growing into quite the little group. They all play together so nicely, and seem to really enjoy hanging out together. The night before we left when I was telling James we were leaving the next day, he got really sad. I told him, "Aren't you excited to see Dada again?" In a purely heart wrenchingly sad James face he said something along the lines of, "Can't Lily and Tessa come too?" And continued to go on and describe how he wished that Dada, Lily and Tessa could all be together-then he'd be perfectly happy. To console his little heart, I offered that we go on a walk before bed. I asked, "Would that make your heart happy?" "Yes, but it will be a little happy to walk, but a little sad to miss Lily and Tessa." He also threw in something about his heart glistening. My dear boy.

I'm glad to be back with my hubby though. I think the four of us function much better when we are all together. We're heading into a busy season though, football is in full swing, Dave goes back to work at the school next week, and I start back teaching my girls in about three weeks! Eeek! We'll be some busy beavers, for sure.