After an exhausting 36 or something hours we finally arrived home! Seriously, America is truly the most beautiful place on earth. I have experienced a few places over the last year and I have never been more proud to call this place my home! I know that no place is perfect and each has it's share of corruption, injustice, brutality and disgrace but here I have a choice and a chance.
We only arrived less than 24 hours ago and after a beautiful day with family and we were spent (yet I am typing this it's 4:00 in the morning as I can't sleep). The tears where few at the airport and there where many smiles. I thought I would just breakdown at the airport due to relief and exhaustion but held it together until I told Hannah and Mason it was time for bed. Mason was thoroughly confused and the last straw was broken when I explained that we were not going home because someone else lives there and we were staying with Grandma and Papa. He was hysterical. I have never seen him so upset and blame a little bit on him being so tired but I took his littleness for granted. My heart was instantly broken and all I could do was hold him and sob with him. There it was, my breakdown. I would never change the last year for anything and maybe it's the exhaustion talking but reflecting on last night with Mason and how I described where we live to my family, I wonder if the life lesson for us all has been achieved?
Either way our immediate future holds the blessed opportunity to enjoy time with family and friends, the freedom of speech, the 2nd Amendment and all the goodness of being an American encompasses!
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