Hotspots hitting home
Mom G and Dad G are going to Joplin tomorrow for a funeral (Mom G's brother-in-law's mother died) and won't be back until late Thursday evening.
Anyway, at work tonight one of my coworkers mentioned that her sister had arrived safely, following a very long flight and a 7-hour bus ride. I confess until that point I'd forgotten her sister had been planning an international adoption; but she was, and she had safely arrived in her hopefully-soon-to-be-her-newest-child's home country: Ukraine. Which isn't exactly the safest place in the world to be at the moment.
Meanwhile, I have two other coworkers, mother and daughter, who are overseas visiting family and aren't expected back until the end of August. I talked to A (the daughter) a couple of days before she left (N, the mother, had already left a couple of weeks ahead), saying, "You'll be overseas for Eid, won't you?" She said yes, and that she was excited.
They're both overseas now in, you guessed it, Palestine, also not one of the safest places to be just now. We haven't heard from either one of them, and while we're not frantic, that low-simmer worry is constant.
I just hope they all make it back safely.
Anyway, at work tonight one of my coworkers mentioned that her sister had arrived safely, following a very long flight and a 7-hour bus ride. I confess until that point I'd forgotten her sister had been planning an international adoption; but she was, and she had safely arrived in her hopefully-soon-to-be-her-newest-child's home country: Ukraine. Which isn't exactly the safest place in the world to be at the moment.
Meanwhile, I have two other coworkers, mother and daughter, who are overseas visiting family and aren't expected back until the end of August. I talked to A (the daughter) a couple of days before she left (N, the mother, had already left a couple of weeks ahead), saying, "You'll be overseas for Eid, won't you?" She said yes, and that she was excited.
They're both overseas now in, you guessed it, Palestine, also not one of the safest places to be just now. We haven't heard from either one of them, and while we're not frantic, that low-simmer worry is constant.
I just hope they all make it back safely.