Our house has not been in a daily routine for the last four weeks. I didn’t want to say anything on here until we were all back to normal and you’ll see why. For the last week and a half the three of us have been in Sydney, we got back last night to a boiling hot Perth (42 here yesterday). For the three weeks prior to that Michael was away in Peru and Keziah and I were home alone.
Those three weeks were very very long weeks. I tried to book myself up for things as much as I could and in the weeks leading up to his departure I was overwhelmed with thoughts of how am I going to handle just me and Kezi alone for that long. I thought I just wouldn’t handle doing everything for Kezi as Michael always does the mornings for me by getting her up and giving her breakfast. Being pregnant meant that I was probably more emotional but also more weary.
In the end, the hardest part of each day wasn’t the work, in fact I coped fine with that. I went to bed around 9pm each night and had naps when she had hers in the day so I was ok with doing everything. What really got to me was lonliness. I had no one coming home at night and chatting to me and no one to say goodnight to. That was the hardest part.
I was counting down the days until Keziah and I would fly to Sydney to meet up with him and it was a great reunion. For the whole three weeks Kezi told me ‘Daddy’s on plane’ so when we went on one she was surprised he wasn’t there. He was at the airport though and she ran and gave him a big hug.
Our time in Sydney was for our annual SIM State Ministry Director’s get together. It was a great time to catch up with our team and spend quality time sharing. The second half of our time in Sydney was spent at a private house for our meetings and Kezi had a wonderful backyard to play in. She tends to throw herself around a fair bit and has the bruises on her legs to prove it! She fell down the three outside steps head first twice but each time got up and just said ‘oh dear’. She’s tough.
All three of us (actually four) are home again now and back into our routine. Apart from the fact that it was raining with a big thunderstorm in Sydney and we had to fly to a very hot Perth, I’m glad to be home. I wish we could have brought the rain with us!
Here are some shots from our time away, you can see some of Michael’s Peru trip photos on his Flickr page here. Oh and he went to Peru with SIM to vist the work there. He got to visit Camp La Joya which I posted about a few weeks ago and to visit Machu Pichu!
Its very very good to be home altogether.
The last two are Kezi in her own hat from Peru and then Michael’s hat from Peru. The last shot is a favourite!
I’ve got more to say about our time in Sydney but I thought this would be a quick update summary.
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