Back to normal

Or as normal as it gets around here . . .

On Monday, after a successful visit to Allie's classroom, me and the Hughes family spent a few minutes chatting with Julia's teacher while Amy and Evan explored Julia's classroom (unfortunately, she had had to go off to gym class). A short while later, we headed off to Chicago and the whole lot of Hugheses headed back to merry old England.

The trip to and from the airport went very smoothly for me despite persistent rain and I understand from Dan that their kids were pretty darn good on the long trip home. The family seems to have all recovered nicely from the brutal west-to-east time change since, per Dan's blog.

And so our family has returned to its normal routines. It's odd, we seem to have so much room in our refrigerator now, and not just because we're not cooling down numerous 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke. Allie and Julia talk about missing their short-term live-in playmates, but I think they'd secretly admit that they're OK with not having to share their toys with anyone other than each other again. Though they definitely miss the iPhones and their games.

Tomorrow and Friday, Julia is off of school because next year's kindergarteners are visiting her classroom. Allie still has to go though. I'll have to counsel Julia not to yell nyah-nyah out the window as we drop her sister off.