Vacation Recap(s): First the Feels, Then the Funny

We’re back from our travels. I’m sitting in bed, the kids are rotting in front of the TV, Robb is working at his home office set-up in the garage. We’re moving pretty slowly these first few days back from traveling for almost a month straight- first driving the eleven hours to and fro Oregon, then taking seven planes and staying in six different places in Michigan and Ohio.

It’s not just the jet lag, it’s also the emotional weight that’s flattened us. When we left our home of sixteen years on New Year’s Day, 2021…and the midwest where we’d…