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Today I flew home to Nebraska. This may be the longest I’ve gone without being home for a visit…last time I was here or saw my parents was Christmas. Here are some of the little things that have made today wonderful….

- A hug from both of my parents and eating a delicious dinner with them before they headed off to their standing Wednesday night commitment of 25 years and counting (Awana). It’s comforting to know that Wednesday nights still look the same here.
- Cold weather outside and Mom’s grilled cheese & tomato soup for dinner.
- A break from the normal routine.
- The open horizon and fields here.
- Currently sitting in one of our big comfy recliners watching a movie on our big TV (soon to be LOST) with my sister next to me working away on her laptop too
- saw my first snowflakes of the season when we landed in the twin cities
- sleeping on both planes…I find the noises of the plane strangely comforting and they put me to sleep
- my ipod to help kill time in the airport…it’s possible that when going to Terminal B I had the moving walkway and hallway entirely to myself and started dancing to the John Mayer song playing on my ipod…
- the kind airport lady ignored the fact that my bag was a half a pound over the weight limit and then the sweet elderly lady that kept asking me questions about our flight before it departed.
- the book Soul Cravings that I’m reading…so good. Look for it November 14th...
- our cat Spooky is still alive and living in the garage. He’s not aging so well (or smelling so good)…I have to say he looks like the cat at the end of Sweet Home Alabama…it’s hard not to laugh
- my parents have wireless
- all the memories that come flooding back to me whenever I am here….like this picture of Farrah handing me the keys to her car when she was teaching me to drive a stick shift on Thanksgiving 2004. Boy are there stories there.




Much more to come from my trip here in the next few days….