Well, now the site for my blog is just plain inaccurate! I thought about starting another one for the second year in Longford, but does it really matter?! I will just continue with this one. We are still an American Family in Longford...
A lot has happened since the one year anniversary. We went on a trip down south and saw numerous things, Haley had her graduation dance and her friends threw a grand party for her, we had our first guests over for a Barbeque, and we took a 4 week trip to the US to get Haley and Connor to the University of Iowa for the start of the school year. I will put in entries for these events, complete with pictures and highlights - they will just be entered a bit untimely...
Zach and I have been back in Ireland since Wednesday morning. Steve picked us up at 5 am! We slept a lot that day. It feels different because Haley isn't here with me. I went to the grocery store and didn't buy apples, sandwich wraps, or Nutella. It made me sad. I saw kids waiting for the bus in their light blue shirts and their dark blue jumpers and I felt left out somehow. I MISS HER! I wandered into Haley's room and it was so empty. I wandered into Connor's room and it seemed even emptier now that they are both in the US. Sigh...
The real constant in my day to day activities these past 2 days is the dogs. They have been quite happy to get back to their daily walks and they had a lovely afternoon in the dog spa. When we walked at the Mall, lots of people said welcome back and essentially noticed that I had been gone, so it really felt like I belonged. It's the little things that can make a day feel grand!
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