August 22, 2016

I’m home! I’m home! I’m home! I’m really happy to be home!   I arrived at the Minneapolis airport on August 10, 2016 to a big, warm welcome greeting by Ernesto. At home the kids surprised me with a barbeque dinner with our dear friends Kristin, Jeff, and Livia, that I missed almost as much as my family. It was a great welcome home. I love my family!

Despite big plans to finish my blogs, read, and write a paper, I haven’t had the time to do much schoolwork since being home. I’m busy getting Elena and Benjamin ready for school—orientation, doctor appointments, and school shopping—but it is so good to hang out with them!

Until returning home, I didn’t realize how much time I had in San Francisco to not only work at St. Gregory’s but also to write, read, and reflect on my experiences (and visit as many museums as I wanted!). I loved being able to sit down at almost any time when I was inspired to write a blog post or read a chapter in a book or research something on the web. It was a gift. Yet, I’m still happy to be home!

I knew this would happen, yet I was still overwhelmed with the amount of stuff that needed to be done at home when I returned—laundry, gardening, cooking, grocery shopping, cleaning, dog walking, etc. Ernesto, the kids, and I share many of the household responsibilities, yet it is still overwhelming. I try hard to carve out time each day to write, read, study, but it is a challenge.

I have a few more things to write about, which I hope to finish before I go back to school in two weeks. Keep checking my blog if you’d like to read more.