Sweet Whim

Tonight, something very unexpected happened.  I think it had been building for a couple of days.  The newness and the bright shiny has worn off and I'm starting to settle into a routine here, and so it was only natural.  I've read about how to combat it and I thought I had prepared myself for it but it's still alarming when it sinks it's teeth into you so unexpectedly.  As we were finishing up dinner tonight I had to leave the table because the tears started to just kind of flow out... I knew the place that they were coming from I just hadn't expected it to come so soon into the trip, or maybe I did and I had just underprepared myself...I don't know...but, for whatever reason, I was completely and uncompromisingly homesick.

The anxiety had really been building all day.  It was a busy day of errand running and literal running and visiting Silvia's parents in their beautiful home in the country and kids, kidS, kiDS, kIDS, KIDS!! Gosh they got on my nerves today, but that's when I think you really start to love somebody or at least know them well, when they can get on your nerves and it doesn't really matter...

Anyway, I retreated to my room in the basement and google searched "coping with homesickness while traveling abroad" because I'm a nerd and that's what nerds do in these situations, and in walks Silvia.  She just calmly came in and sat at the foot of my bed where I lay crying and google-ing... like a nerd...

Silvia is a woman of great strength and tenderness all at the same time.  Somehow, she knows how to deal with me and I'm indebted to her for it.  When I had calmed down enough to go back upstairs, the kids were in bed.  Gianluca decided that tonight would be a good night for him to go out and get us some gelato.  So the three adults (I use this term very loosely when speaking of myself after my "episode" tonight) sat around the kitchen table with nothing but candle light (because that's how Silvia and I like it), gelato, and perhaps some limoncello to sooth our souls.  Just before I was about to head on to bed Valerie and Scarlett Skyped me.  How does that happen?  How am I always given exactly what I need?  There's no amount of Google searching that could have helped me tonight (although I did find some really sound tips that I'm totally going to try...) What I needed was family and home, and I got both this evening from both sides of the world.  I am blessed.  I am loved.  I am content.

Peace, Love, and Travel,
Reba

Pure love.

These Sweetteas...Pure love X2.