Life: Idiotropic

Back for a few days now and almost normal... I think.  Have gone to the post office and coffeed with friends, ran mundane errands, and done laundry.  Nothing glamorous, but all normal.  And, as much as I loved being home in the states, it is great to be back in my home here.

"Was it this beautiful before?"  Kirk thinks it's prettier.  I know that being away has renewed this place for us. 

I'm puzzled that in the month when traditionally nothing happens in Spain that the cami road near our house was repaired with real pavement instead of the traditional mud.  That's big news here.

Puzol had their biggest festival of the year which we missed, but we did get to the girl's school to meet their new teachers.  Elise has a teacher from New Zealand.  Luci has the same teacher that Arianna had last year - an American and a teacher that we really like.  Arianna has a nice British teacher who is open to letting me help out in the classroom.  Now that is a great thing.  Another step towards normal.


The real joy in these last few days... or at least a big news item for Tiara and I... was in our trip to Makro, a store that I just recently got a membership for.  Makro is sort of like a Costco and it carries items that businesses need... and some of those businesses are restaurants... so you can find foods that you simply can't find in any normal public grocery store.  Foods like Phyllo dough and ricotta cheese, frozen berries and pepperoni.  Amazing.  Amazing how a relatively small thing like pepperoni can evoke squeals of happiness from not one or two, but 5 girls.

This might just be the most normal we've felt so far.  And I know that it can take a year.  I've heard that a year is normal.  One always hopes it will be quicker... that those discoveries will just magically happen.  But a year is that magic marker, I think.  And finally... a year before we'll say goodbye... I think we sort of feel (dare I say it again?) normal.