We have been back now for 3 weeks. Can it already have been that long? Sometimes I think that England was a dream… we didn’t really spend our summer in the English countryside did we? But I just have to scroll down a bit to see Claire’s smiling face in the midst of those wheat fields that we watched grow steadily each week to remember well our British summer.
Coming back has been so good in many ways, the comfort of your own bed and pillow is incredible! Having a stocked kitchen and counter space! … I will never complain of lack of counter space again! Hearing English in our own accent, yes the English accent is romantic and wonderful, but it can also be tiring to hear it all day long. You have to concentrate harder and I don’t think I realized this until I heard an American speaking on TV one evening after being in England several weeks. It felt so soothing to hear that American … ok ... it was Tom Hanks being interviewed… of course it’s enjoyable listening to him! But it was his accent first that I found so refreshing and then his humor!
We are trying to settle into a routine which has been harder than I expected. I’m still adjusting to my alarm going off at 5:15am again (this summer I didn’t start work until 9am). Although I do enjoy having my afternoons at home now. Working all day this summer, I would long for afternoons off to play with the girls, bake, run errands, it all sounded so wonderful. And now that I have it back I find it hard to be as productive as I’d like to be. I’ve been napping more than usual, I feel behind with the house chores and I haven’t sat down to play pretend with my girls recently.
Life. Why must it always take so much work to run smoothly?
