A Saturday Surprise!

Before you start thinking I lied; I didn't! I never said I was staying... I just left out the fact that I was coming home ;)

On Thursday morning, I decided to come home with Barry and Annie yesterday to surprise all the kids. We landed about 12:00pm, went through customs, picked up our luggage, got our rental car, and started heading home from LAX around 2:00pm. We stopped for a much needed food break at Chick Fil'a... let me tell you that was a long time coming :) The freeways were SOOOO crowded and it took a long time to get home (at least it felt like it as I kept dosing in and out while Barry drove).

We walked through our front door around 4pm and I rushed upstairs to clean up. At one point I closed my eyes and it felt like I was on a boat, so I figured it was either a rolling earthquake or I was really exhausted. Barry, Annie, and I lied down for a quick nap and didn't wake up until 7:30pm. Even though Gracie and Chloe weren't expecting Barry until Sunday, I wanted so badly to see them last night. So we got up when we should've stayed asleep and drove to Gina's to get the girls. Barry had called her to tell her he was on his way, but we never told her I was with him :)

We pulled up and Gina was loading the Suburban with all the girls stuff and she saw me. Her mouth dropped open wide and she gasped. I put my finger to my mouth to keep the surprise quiet and ran up to her with a big hug. She called me a BRAT for not telling her! Later, it would prove that she was really more excited than anyone else.

Barry and I walked in the house and the girls were sort of vegging before bed, apparently tired, and not sure what to think when we came in. It took a few minutes for it to sink in that we were really there. We stayed and talked for a while and headed for home a bit later. We got home sometime around 10pm I think and got everyone in bed and went straight to sleep.

This morning, we surprised Fischer and went to get him at 10am. He was very suprised when we walked in the door and couldn't believe I was there with Barry. He spent the day with us before he had to work at 4pm and will be home late tonight. Tomorrow we'll take him to get all his things and Abby will be home for good.

I wrote a whole bunch of other things that have long slipped my mind, but blogger decided to log me out and didn't save any of it in a draft, so I guess I'll close the post :)

Another day, I'll do a post about the very different lifestyles between the two countries I've lived in (3 1/2 weeks isn't really visiting is it?!) I am very happy to be back in beautiful USA for another week before I return to get Micah and bring him home for good (sometime around July 5). SURPRISE!