Other than being awake at 4 each morning and having some serious fatigue in the afternoons, I've adjusted better than expected to being home. It is a blessing and a challenge to come home to 2 active kids and a demanding dog and coping with a body that can pull through when needed, but then collapses with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue after periods of intensity - like a trip half way across the world.
After a stunning over 80 degree day and full bloom of the cherry trees on Friday which made me so glad to be in DC right now (I'll check in again in July!), the rain and cold of the past day or so reminded me of Vashon. Yesterday, I felt that old familiar coldness to the bone that only cool weather with rain can provide and somehow it felt like home.
Talking about the weather, paying bills, running errands, helping with homework, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, making the meals - it's all just life and some of the many details that make us human and not so unlike the families I visited in Bangladesh.
After a stunning over 80 degree day and full bloom of the cherry trees on Friday which made me so glad to be in DC right now (I'll check in again in July!), the rain and cold of the past day or so reminded me of Vashon. Yesterday, I felt that old familiar coldness to the bone that only cool weather with rain can provide and somehow it felt like home.
Talking about the weather, paying bills, running errands, helping with homework, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, making the meals - it's all just life and some of the many details that make us human and not so unlike the families I visited in Bangladesh.
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