Through the Seasons

How long has it been?

Before we left Africa I was counting down – mainly because I wanted off the campsite.  Over four months of camping for a girl who doesn’t like to camp is a bit much.  So now we’re back and I have no idea how long we’ve been here.  Has it been a week?  Two weeks? 

I think I’m all messed up mainly because of Christmas.  We got back and got busy just settling in but also shopping for Christmas presents.  Then wrapping them.  By the time we were through getting a few essentials for ourselves and getting these other things done it was Christmas.  We spent time with my family and then Jonathan’s.  Now it’s all over.  I think.  The New Year is quickly approaching.  I never realized how fast that comes after Christmas!  I’m not quite ready for it all to speed by.  I think because I wasn’t here for the whole month of December so I’ve had an abreviated version of the holiday season this year.

Hopefully now we can get into a routine where we go to sleep and get up at basically the same time every day, where we eat meals and snacks at regular times (we’ve been way off on that up until now), and where we have times of busyness paired with times of rest.  I’d also like to get back into getting up somewhat early in the morning to have my quiet time then write my blog entry.  I haven’t had that routine since before I got pregnant.  And yes I know so please don’t tell me – there will be no routine after baby comes.  But baby isn’t here yet so I hope to enjoy a little routine until then!

Other than just body clock kind of stuff our adjustment back to the States has been pretty easy.  They say it’s usually quite hard but I don’t know what they mean by hard and I’m sure we haven’t experienced anything bad.  Yet anyway.  Unless I’m totally missing something.  There is one thing that happened today and I thought, “Remember how much you don’t miss that when you return to Africa.”  What was this thing?  Car commercials.  Ugh.