First Two Days. . .

There is no place like home! There is no place like home! That is an understatement.

We arrived at DFW airport about 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning. After about an hour of immigration and customs we were free. GranBob, David and Laura were there to meet us and when I saw their faces I felt like an exhausted racer that just crossed the finish line and all I wanted to do was fall down.

Dallas never looked better. I enjoyed every site on the way home from the airport. The hardest part of coming home was the absence of my dear Breaker, but every time I open the door I miss him so I guess that will just be the way it is.

Jordan did great from the first ride in a carseat to being whisked through the house by Jillian to see every room with no time to stop and take it in. The dogs flipped Jordan out totally and completely. Mom and Dad kind of flipped out at that, but they knew I would do it my way. I think she recognized that it was her room from the pictures I had shown her, but honestly it was alot to take in at the whirlwind pace it was presented to her. About 5:00 p.m. both girls were glassy eyed and I made a fatal error in judgement. I decided to let them go to sleep. My thinking was that 12 hours would put us to 5:00 a.m. and with any luck at all I could get an extra 2 which would be the time I would need to get them up to get ready for church. Any one that knows me knows that any time after 9:00 p.m. I turn into the wicked stepmother. Well at 10:00 I am awakend to the drama queen (Jillian) freaking out that her sister has gone missing. Because it was after 9:00 I was not concerned but needed to quiet the drama queen so we went to look for her. We found her in the recliner with Gran Bob. After hustling them back to bed I decided that there is nothing that makes you sleep better than a full belly. I was off to the kitchen and made 2 turkey sandwiches, brownie, and two glasses of strawberry milk. They ate and were tucked back in with a stern look and motion that you better stay in your bed. Not an hour later I again was awakened to the Mamma chorus. I went and threatened them with hand motions and mean looks and again went back to bed. About an hour later they were standing at my bedside. I quickly decided that my body would not get out of the bed again so I pulled them up in my bed and again gave them the look. After that about every fifteen minutes one or the other had to be corrected. A few hours later Jillian was tapping on me telling me a feather was on her lip. Not a great night.

I was bound and determined that Sunday we would get up and go to church and praise and worship God for what He has done for us. Getting up took a few prayers in itself but we did it. I was so proud to hear from Jillian's Sunday school teacher Sunday night that she did give God praise. Her Sunday school teacher told me that she told Jillian that they had been praying for us and she said that Jillian told her that God answered our prayers with her sister and an extra bonus of tvs on the plane. Jordan went to her own Sunday school class and my friend from Sunday school had her the first hour. She reported that Jordan was bossing all of the boys and hugging all of the parents that came in the room. When we picked her up she was still going strong. Jillian grabbed her and hugged her and said that she missed her so much. We went back in the afternoon for their choir and my Bible study. I have no idea what she sang in choir but she said she had fun. On the way home from church we had to scream and yell to keep Jordan awake. I was determined that I was going to sleep that night.

When my niece and nephew were little my brother use to wrestle with them and give them zerbits (lips on skin and blow). I always thought that it looked like so much fun so when I got Jillian we started the tradition at bedtime. I decided it was time to introduce Jordan to the tradition. She took to it right away. She was screaming and jumping and begging for zerbits. Our rule is that you have to call your zerbit when you do it. Jillian and I were laughing so hard from her pronounciation of zerbit that we could not stop laughing. Life does not get any better than this!

Today we took Jillian to school and for the first time just the two of us were together. We had a great time doing a little bit of working, running errands, and just hanging out. She is doing so much better with the dogs. They now run freely through the house and she just watches them. She is petting them all of the time and saying awww. She was happy to go and pick her sister up from school and play with her until bedtime. Today I got the sense that she was settling in.