The day before our trip, it snowed in Oradea. We were going to go to an aquapark. I was exhausted and unsure if it’s the right time to go. But I made the plans a few weeks prior, and to take my parents too. Conrad stayed home with Rufus and his broken foot, with a ton of work.
It has been a very hard season after we returned from California. We thought we escaped winter, but we had two more months of it. It took its toll. This daily grind of marching in place, day in and day out. I needed to break the routine so badly. We can’t travel on a whim now that we have Jaclyn. After chauffeuring jackie daily, food shopping, cooking, cleaning, I lost my culinary enthusiasm and creativity. The days blend into each other. Conrad is knee deep in design work, from dawn to dusk. Even walking Rufus – going out early, before most people were up, most often to find the grass frozen, and taking j out to walk Rufus was exhausting, putting winter attire on a child and trying to get out of the house, with an overly excited dog – you can picture it … I was just tired of it all.
I miss my family and friends in California, and on top of it all, our extended family is doing what’s best at this point in their lives, and are moving out of Cali. But that pushes out the foothold we felt we had in the place we called home for a decade, even after we moved away.
Next week we finalize the paperwork to purchase a piece of land up in the mountains. And we are starting in earnest to gather the paperwork to adopt again. Papers to be submitted no earlier than April 24. Easter is around the corner.
Tomorrow is Good Friday.
Our escape to the warm springs turned out perfectly timed, perfect in every way. I returned home a few hours ago, with fresh energy. A little distance makes everything seem small.