end of the season...

Just as I was thinking of changing my name to southern child never in the city...., we received some good news:  Big Dad has been released from the hospital and is moving to rehab.  And while he is probably not thrilled with the news (he'd rather be at home watching The Kardashians...seriously.  He loves them), we are so happy that he is at least on the way to recovery.
That also meant that Mrs. B was coming home!  Lil' Miss B could hardly contain her excitement.  First thing Saturday morning we went to work rolling out the welcome mat...

While we waited for her arrival, Miss B helped me wash my dad's car that he so very selflessly loaned to me for my entire trip....Thanks Papa!   

A delicate flower Miss B is not!  We definitely had our work cut out for us after weeks of carpooling and errand running in Dad's little (and impeccably clean) car...

All it took was a little elbow grease...

and in the words of lil' B...

"Pa-Zham!  We have a clean car!"

what a babe!

However, my journeys home always have a bittersweet ending...
I'm heading back to the city this week.  Even though I am so homesick for my home and life in the city, I will miss my family and my first home in the South when I go...I always do.
Sometimes it's hard to live so far away.  You don't realize what a gift you have in your family until you cannot see them everyday. And even though I learned this lesson eight years ago, I still cry almost every time I leave...back in the early days I would become so irritated with myself for being a baby, but now I think of it as a gift to love my family that much and to know that they love me too.  They are happy tears that I am sure I will be crying for the one millionth time in a matter of days.
The tears only last for a minute, though, and then I'm always excited to get home and back to life with D.  It is where I belong...for now anyway.
Fall is my most favorite of the New York seasons, and by the time I land in La Guardia, fall will have officially begun, and I will have all of my amazing summer gypsy memories to keep with me, and a whole fall of new memories to look forward to.
A great end to a very busy summer season.

xo...
ki