#holiday over

[ozcanozaltn36]

[bluedesignwall]

It was my first day back at work after six weeks holiday. I was feeling a bit deflated after all the holiday fun. Clearly this guy wasn’t feeling that way at all. Maybe I just need a tiny buzzing fan like he has. Apparently decorating the staff cafe areas for Christmas is a competition this year. It is good to see my colleagues have not lost their competitiveness while I was away.

[savagewilderness]

[mrmorphea]

Guess who's back from holiday

........

ME!! me!! it was me!! Just in case you were wondering

[a-milestone]

And just like that my 2 week holiday comes to an end. It's been a busy and hectic two weeks. I've been able to enjoy a lot of time with my boy and had some time for me. It'll be nice to go back to work, the house is a little cramped with the two stepsons still at home doing nothing despite me and my partner talking about how they needed jobs and to start paying rent. She assures me that she will speak to them... I'm not convinced.

[clare-struggles-with-life]

I am knackered!

After 12 days of exploring the beautiful Tokyo I am now home in Hong Kong. It is safe to say that I will be resting until Easter is over. Then I will be getting back into the swing of walking daily and eating healthier food. Not that we have been piggies on holiday but we have certainly enjoyed ourselves. But I think it has been balanced with all the walking. We walked pretty much 8 miles a day apart from 2 days of maybe half that. I have muscles that have woken up in my calves that I haven't felt in years. It's actually quite encouraging.

Really praying I can keep the momentum going now I'm back to reality again.

[conversationswithhank]

Molly: (with a blanket over her head, avoiding waking up while I struggle her into clothes) one, two, tree, four, five, six, even, two-elve… two-elve…

Hank: (looking around at the now quiet, four people less house) It is so weird.

Me: Reentry?

Hank: Wait, what? What is reentry?

Me: When Astronauts return to earth they have to slowly reacclimatize upon reentry of our atmosphere and it is the same with scuba divers, too. They have to save enough oxygen in their tanks to slowly resurface from exploring the deep ocean. There are three situations when you have to carefully return to your life here on earth: When returning from space, when returning from the depths of the sea and when returning from vacation. If you don’t approach reentry carefully and methodically you can get very sick very fast.

Hank: Body sick or heart sick?

Me: Both.

Hank: Oh. (sigh) That was the best week ever.

Molly: (head still under a blanket) Kelwee, Bryan, Connor, Aida go go go via zembora (they left)?

Me: Yes, little one. Our friends went home.

Molly: Go go go howse? Go go go home?

Me: Yes. Our friends got on an airplane, then another airplane and then yet one more and returned home and right now they are all sleeping.

Molly: (emerging from under her blanket to put a finger to her lips and shush us) Aida sweeping. (nodding) Kelwee sweeping. (more nodding) Bryan, Connor sweeping.

Me: (finger to my lips) Shhhhhhhhhh.

Molly: (pulls the blanket back over her head)

Hank: It was like, having them here, was like no time was gone. It felt just like when we visited them with Lyuba in Chicago at the hotel. It was like nothing was different except they were in Portugal.

Me: Yet, that was three years ago or was it four? It was four years ago. You were Aida’s age.

Hank: That feels impossible.

Me: And now begins every day where I miss them, even though we are in constant contact, until we see them again. (deep sigh)

Hank: But it was worth it.

Me: Always is.

Molly: (head still under a blanket) One, two, tree, four, five six even, eight, two-elve, two-elve… two-elve… Mama? MAMA!

Me: Thirteen…

Hank: Fourteen…

Molly: Two-elve…

[80smikewheeler]

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Back from Spain, back to the rainy British weather...😒☔️💦