I think we are all in a bit of a funk here, dealing with the post-company letdown, though it's also nice getting back into our regular groove of things. And it's a lot easier to get around when there aren't six of us crammed into our little car. Slowly, though, life is returning to normal at our little home away from home.
Dusty is back to work on his research. He went to the community yesterday and walked some more of the farms. Today he is home writing up his notes and getting some emails off to his advisors at MSU. Then it's back to the farms tomorrow. He also is hoping to visit the regional forestry office and meet with the forester in charge of the reserve where his community is located. Now that he is back in research mode, his head is positively swimming with questions, ideas, follow-up questions, theories, hypotheses, variables, controls... everything but the kitchen sink. Now if only I could get him to focus on the kitchen sink - or more specifically, the pile of dishes therein - once in awhile, we'd be in business. Just kidding, honey.
Elliot seems to have bounced back the best. I guess when you're only 21 months old, the world is constantly throwing curveballs at you anyway, so maybe you just come to expect change. Plus, he's VERY busy learning new words and finding new ways to push our buttons. Less than three months from his second birthday, he's already preparing us for that rite of passage that is the "teriffic" (or is it terrible, or tiring, or totally out of control?) twos. Whatever it is, hold onto your hats because it's going to be a wild ride.
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I know that left behind feeling -- four years of college out of state, living in the northern wood of Michigan away from my family & then to Lansing. Even with a drive of only and hour & a half, I hardly saw my family.
You'll be home soon! Hope Michael beats Zelda before then, otherwise he'll probably beg to come over & play all the time! :O
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