Friday, 5 September 2014

More Than a Year in Longford!

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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