This big, stupid grin on my face

While I have many more pressing things to be doing right now, it is hard for me to focus...because I booked my tickets this afternoon! My tickets for the long-overdue, much-anticipated trip back to Tennessee!

I haven't been back since I moved, over two years ago, and since then there have been four babies born among my friends. FOUR. And it's not just the babies, but I feel I have missed out on so much more since I moved away. All the everyday ups and down of life that we used to commiserate or celebrate...I hear about them, but I am not really a part of them anymore. But for one week in April, I will feel like I am a part of it again, like I am back in MY life.

I am so excited that I cannot focus on anything this evening. I have studying to do, pool stuff to be sorting out, laundry that's calling my name...but instead, I am sitting here with a martini in hand and a big, stupid grin on my face because I am going home. For the first time in many months, my homesickness has abated.

And that, my friends, is something to celebrate.

Cheers!