So Hard to Go Home

"It seems like we just got here" came the chorus of voices, and I couldn't agree more. 

 

 

Anticipation is just as much a part as experience.  Whether it's vacation or marriage or a new baby, the joy is more full and complete when one has passed through the stage of yearning for the thing that is just out of reach.

It was full.  And rich.  And exciting.

And now it is over.

We pass through the stage of mourning.  The loss of those wonderful moments of vacating, of leaving behind the everyday in exchange for a lighter version of the everyday in a new and exciting location.  The same only different.

Back to three meals.  Back to piles of laundry.  Back to school and work.  Back to life.