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pennswoodsHello from Sweden. We flew on Christmas night and arrived yesterday to a bit of chaos at my MIL's home. She'd had an accident and we needed to call the home care team to help - there's an emergency number for that, but she refuses to call it out of pride or self-consciousness. My husband called it and the team cam swiftly and helped clean up in a professional and respectful (to my perspective) way.
Our arrival yesterday came on the heels of a really busy week or so. I returned from Spain on 14 December, my friend and vice president of the organization I am president of, passed away on Monday, 15 December and the next several days were a whirlwind of condolences, me getting sick, and logistics. My husband and I were meant to travel to Connecticut on the morning of the 19th for a few days but with pivoted to driving up on the night of the 18th to miss the storms expected the next day. We then spent through the 22nd (with a day trip to NYC) dealing with his family's storage locker in Connecticut. We were able to get rid of enough stuff to downsize to a smaller locker. He did most of the work, but I did plenty as well - it was tedious and hard and boring. We arrived back home shortly before midnight on the 22nd and spent the 23-24th preparing for travel and Christmas. Among the items we rescued from storage was my mother-in-law's spinning wheel.
We had decided to disassemble it and bring it with us to Sweden as a surprise for my mother in law. It's awkwardly sized, but it turned out that when booking our tickets to fly on Christmas Day, the premiere seats (which come with two checked bags per passenger) was only slightly more than the regular economy tickets. My husband got his mother's spinning wheel and a few other small items for dealing with wool, boxed professionally by the UPS store and we checked it at no extra charge. It arrived just fine and my MIL had tears in her eyes opening it. We are now on a quest to get her more wool so she will have it to spin with through the winter.
We're here through the 8th and while I will be running and visiting with friends, I have plans to get back to work on my book, which I have not touched these past few weeks. It's peaceful here - perhaps too quiet (aside from my husband and MIL arguing with each other), so I am hoping to use the lack of meetings and urgent emails these next few days to do the thinking and planning I need to. I am looking forward to a little bit of quiet.
Our arrival yesterday came on the heels of a really busy week or so. I returned from Spain on 14 December, my friend and vice president of the organization I am president of, passed away on Monday, 15 December and the next several days were a whirlwind of condolences, me getting sick, and logistics. My husband and I were meant to travel to Connecticut on the morning of the 19th for a few days but with pivoted to driving up on the night of the 18th to miss the storms expected the next day. We then spent through the 22nd (with a day trip to NYC) dealing with his family's storage locker in Connecticut. We were able to get rid of enough stuff to downsize to a smaller locker. He did most of the work, but I did plenty as well - it was tedious and hard and boring. We arrived back home shortly before midnight on the 22nd and spent the 23-24th preparing for travel and Christmas. Among the items we rescued from storage was my mother-in-law's spinning wheel.
We had decided to disassemble it and bring it with us to Sweden as a surprise for my mother in law. It's awkwardly sized, but it turned out that when booking our tickets to fly on Christmas Day, the premiere seats (which come with two checked bags per passenger) was only slightly more than the regular economy tickets. My husband got his mother's spinning wheel and a few other small items for dealing with wool, boxed professionally by the UPS store and we checked it at no extra charge. It arrived just fine and my MIL had tears in her eyes opening it. We are now on a quest to get her more wool so she will have it to spin with through the winter.
We're here through the 8th and while I will be running and visiting with friends, I have plans to get back to work on my book, which I have not touched these past few weeks. It's peaceful here - perhaps too quiet (aside from my husband and MIL arguing with each other), so I am hoping to use the lack of meetings and urgent emails these next few days to do the thinking and planning I need to. I am looking forward to a little bit of quiet.
