Life back in America

Well, we've been home 5 days. It has been a whirlwind of "welcome back to life" days. A hard thing is that now it's Thanksgiving. It was a surreal feeling to step off the plane in DC to Christmas music and Christmas trees. I love Black Friday. All the girls over 18 go out. We have hats, matching shirts. We had out candy canes to the downtrodden. I will admit - I'm struggling. Luckily, my kids have never been one to make list after list of their Christmas wants. They are just as likely to pour over a Compassion or World Vision magazine as the Target catalog. So it's not that. I looked through the sales papers. They had balls (soccer, basketball, and football) for $5. My first thought was "That's a great price - I wonder if they have any deflated ones?" I saw some tabletop games - pingpong, foosball, etc. The boys at Onesimus would love that - "would it fit in my suitcase?" I went to Bath and Body Works to get Solomon (our driver) some cookie dough hand sanitizer. I'm not sure if I'm so conflicted because I know I'm going back soon. I know my son is still there. I know how little so many kids there have. I have always had the type of brain that never stopped and my flittings have always concerned Ryan and usually given him a headache :) But this is worse, way worse. And the thing about it - I see it in all of us. We just respond / react in different ways. When we got home, I worked hard to put together a scrapbook of sorts. I wanted to be able to take it to show our family and friends over the holidays. However, Wal-Mart had other plans and the book was not ready on time - despite their one day guarantee. So, I'm going to start posting the book - page by page here. It will take a bit of time but I'll get it all done, eventually. :) Enjoy