So, after a month-long holiday we are back home – with huge suitcases and many, many bags of crazy shopping, great memories and thousands of photographs.
We lug all the bags up the lift. When we finally turn the key in the lock, that wonderful smell of ‘home’ makes us close our eyes in bliss. Yay, we are home!
We are a little weary from all the travelling, eating, shopping and over eating. We are jet-lagged, and like electric bulbs going off, the children drop-off into nodland.
I open the windows and let fresh air breeze through the house. I take a few more deep breaths of ‘home’.
I smell my favourite cypress freshner, a little bit of the prayer incense and the fragrance of our home, that is so unique to it – made up of all the things that are in it and that make it what it is.
There’a a bit of ‘weary’ in me as I mull over all the things I will have to do, starting from cleaning the house and stocking-up on supplies, and changing the sheets and getting ready for school and holiday homework and the hundreds of small things that will need doing.
This is the flip-side of the ‘being away the whole month’ coin.
And the unpacking! How could I forget that!
But, believe me, it feels great to be back, and to sit on the couch and dream about the holiday.
My eyes droop but I cannot indulge myself – here, at home, the buck stops with me. I need a super-size caffeine shot to get me going. I make myself some extra-strong filter coffee. I amble back to the couch.
I relish every drop as long as I can, for I know that the moment the coffee mug gets empty, I’m on duty………till the next holiday.
But seriously, there’s no place like home.
Wow, you have a month-long leave! Me, I have more than two weeks only of building notable and illustrious memories. With me was my backpack, my treasured laptop, and my indispensable camera. And I say, that’s true! There’s no place like my room! Welcome back!
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Yeah right…no place like one’s own. How was your holiday
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Well, I had a basket full of colorful memories worth recalling. I went home with a joyous heart as light as a cotton and a re-winded energy whose spirit is catching up with time recessed for a while.
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Great…hoping to see lots of pictures
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I can imagine how comfortable you felt at home. Home is the only place where I sleep in peace.
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Can totally relate to that☺
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Glad you had a good trip.
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Thank you Katelon. Hope you are well
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Well, welcome back! Yes, there’s always two sides of the coin, you’re happy to have some time away and coming home is nice but it’s so stressful to catch up on all that lost time!
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😯😯😯 I’m not thinking…only doing…bags n bags of laundry😉😉
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Oh, I’ll bet!!
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Amen to that! Welcome back. Hope you had a fabulous holiday. I always dread doing the laundry when I return. It obviously multiples while I’m traveling. 😉
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Laundry…..sigh…still have loads.
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Thank you, had a great time
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Happy you enjoyed your break!
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Thank you Kate☺
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