Upside-Down

It's a crazy kind of world we've been in of late.

We gave up our dog.

And the next day, Jeremy left for an unexpected business trip to Fort Worth.

In his absence, Gideon and I ate hot dogs in front of the TV for dinner for a week.  And experienced our first Halloween in our new home.

Baylor beat Texas (?!) and A&M (FINALLY!) beat Texas Tech.

Gideon and I packed our own bags and locked up the house, leaving cat and house in the hands of neighbors for a month, while we head off to Texas for ourselves.

We stayed in our old neighborhood in Fort Worth, just two houses down from our former house and peered curiously into the backyard that used to be ours.  We played with old neighbors, caught up with old friends, enjoyed the unsettling comfort of familiar faces and places that seemed not to have changed at all, but still aren't quite the same.

We threw ourselves into the mayhem of a house full of babies and preschoolers - 7-month-old twins, and two 3-year-olds.

A&M beat Oklahoma (!) and Kansas State beat Texas (WHOOP!)

We've ridden in a plane, a train, a bus, and two rental cars.

We wondered about how open the country seemed around my parents' house and realized it wasn't the country, it was the sky that was so big - that big Texas sky we never think about when we're here.

We left a home and came back to one.  It's upside-down around here, fo' sho', y'all.