There and Back Again

My kids and I left our rental house in Montpellier for the last time at 5:00 a.m Tuesday morning and arrived in Fort Collins, Colorado, on Tuesday evening, a little over 21 hours later. We found our house and garden in great condition and found that friends had kindly done a little shopping for us. Ruth and our dog were scheduled to come in on Wednesday, but heat and other snafus delayed them until Saturday. She left for Seattle today and I'm solo parenting again all this week before I go to San Francisco for work next week. It's a little chaotic here with work, camp, birthdays, dentist appointments, and other deferred business, but less so than in the week before our flight. Thanks in part to earlier-than-usual rising, I haven't fallen too far behind in my running and did 20 miles this weekend. I'm relieved to be here and am happy to see friends, run along the river, ride my bike, and go out for real tacos with my kids.