Trip Home

So Dana has wrapped up her trip to Pouss. In fact, she has just left Paris and is making her way back to Boston and then home! I spoke with her yesterday while she was in Younde and she sounded good, tired (a bit frustrated), but good. She's battling a bit of a stomach thing (hmmm, Africa, stomach thing...?) but otherwise reports that she is in good health.

The kids and I are thrilled that tonight she will be home. The past couple of days, Ellie has been sing-songing "mommy's coming home" and Ethan has been drawing little welcome home pictures. We had planned to get a banner but didn't find the time. One thing that I have viscerally experienced is how truly over scheduled we are. We have tried so hard to avoid that pattern as parents and a family, but clearly we have fallen prey to the temptation of thinking that more is better (even while our unofficial family mantra is "less is more"). Every day of the week and on the weekend, we were off going to some activity. Maybe we will find the motivation to actually change that...but that may be for another blog!

My hope is that Dana will post the final entry in a couple of days. Thank you for reading this blog and commenting and otherwise supporting Dana on this voyage. She has not seen the blog yet and I know she is looking forward to it.