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adventure ended, China, china adventure, coming home, daughters, family, foreign travel, returning home, reunions, time in china, travel, traveling with children
We’re back and our China Adventure is over. Well, the China part is complete, but I dare say the adventure aspect of things will continue on for years to come. The flight was, as one always hopes, uneventful and long. And now jet lag has set in as we feel 12 hours ahead of everything but the sun tells us otherwise. Our cats are alive and Alistair may already be wishing us on other adventures sooner than later! Amelia woke up at 6 this morning. I could have slept at least another hour, but her tummy told her otherwise. Her friend, Lilly, from across the street noticed that Amelia was back and yelled out to her. Oh what joy! To be seen and recognised and welcomed. What a feeling. It’s what we all want in coming home – a sense that we are celebrated upon our return. Then it was another friend a little further down who noticed. She was invited to stay and play which gave me time to nap, I mean unpack. Okay, I admit it. I fell asleep for about an hour or maybe two. Then it was time for a break. Amelia’s jet-lag was setting in and she was starting to get surly and short tempered so she came back and we had a nice quiet afternoon between bouts of temper. Jet lag isn’t easy and being over tired make you less able to self monitor. We managed to get through the evening. As I was washing up the dishes Amelia went into the living room and when I came out she was knocked out, sound asleep. I carried her up to bed.
And so we begin reentry into the rhythm of the familiar and the figuring out of how to assimilate the experiences had into who we are and grow into being. That won’t necessarily be a conscious thing, but it will happen. And, as always, I’ll be there to help Amelia and she with me as we talk over, remember and shift through our time in China with life back at the New Old House.
So… Welcome back…
I’ve enjoyed reading your adventures, as it more than brought back my own time in Asia.
Hopefully, by now, you are mostly recvered from the jetlag.
For a couple of years there, when I flew back to the states, I never got more than a little bit along in the process of re-aclimating to EST, before I had to turn around and go back.
… my body was not very happy with me on those occassions…
Thanks for the welcome. I’ve had my days of falling over for a nap to get through the day. I think I’m back to regular time now. At least I’m not getting ready to jet off somewhere else anytime soon.