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I've been learning a lot about my kids since moving, and I've also been learning about myself.
1) If you get a flat tire on the way to school, DON'T cry in the car.
Read moreI just can't tell you what it's like, after 40 days of displacement, to see your children running up stairs and down hallways.
To trip over Thomas and his friend Clarabel, tracks winding from the sitting room to the kitchen, long packed away and now breathing fresh air with the wee lad who has inherited them.
To give an after school snack to your eldest, the sliding glass doors to the back garden framing his sturdy head as he bends over homework, the green of shrubs reflecting off the glare in his specs.
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Dear Sister,
I hope you're OK. I haven't heard from you in awhile, and we're so far apart now, it's hard to know how things are on your side of the world. It's ok, really it is. You'll receive no guilt trips in the mail. But I miss you, and I wanted you to know.
You should see E right now, "I'm really small because I'm really, really old," she says. She's on her knees, using two toy hammers as crutches, wearing her new school tie.
"I'm an old, old man."
Read moreAt 2 am this morning, I had this brilliant idea and opening paragraph of a new post (the wee lad was awake and screaming due to some sort of tummy trouble). In the light of day and under the haze of little sleep, I don't have a clue as to what it was going to be about.
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My brain is mush, from jetlag and house viewings and the rain that soaks you through. But a long walk down the pier sets many things right.
How do things look on your side of the world today?
