Doha,Dallas, Austin...India

The end of summer is here. The speed limit in school zones is back to 20 mph. Temperatures are easing up.  My Doha friends are finishing with their return jet lag. Facebook is filled with back to school pictures. Yes. Goodbye summer "vacation".  Our container from Doha traveled the ocean all summer and is supposed to arrive in our driveway today. There is a sense of closure that surrounds the delivery of 9 years in the Middle East.  Today, before putting Robert on the bus to Austin where he will be met by his brother Russell and then start college on Monday, we will sort through and identify the boxes that will be stored here in the attic and those that will be moved to Austin on Friday.   Granted it's not a huge container but still the task overwhelms me.  Vaguely I remember the contents and I do have the inventory list but still...actual items and sizes of boxes are not in this brain.  The summer has been good though. Time to reconnect with friends.  To be with our family in Kansas. Road trips. Buc-eys, Doha reunions and Abu Dhabi ones, too,  Dallas restaurants, long conversations, movies, laughter, tears, stories, hugs..and Mike getting a job.  In India. I hope to join him once the crazy here is sorted out.  I guess I'll have to change the name of my blog.  I actually  started this to have a chronicle for my kids. They were pretty young when we left the states.  Friends have told me to keep writing so I guess I will.  Been brainstorming a new name for it though.  Sandy land won't work in Mumbai. Guess I'll get my creative kids on that... My creative juices aren't flowing right now.  Perhaps by the time I join Mike in India...hopefully by end of September, I will have a new title for a new adventure. 

One of the many wonderful memories  from summer that I will take with me.. Shari and I holding our great nieces for the first time .