My brother just left from a visit from the Peace Corps. He’s been calling the Philippines his home and enjoying views of tropical beaches and hot Filipinas on tropical beaches for 15 months now. Actually, we know he is really there to save the world. Just kidding, it’s really about the Filipinas on beaches. Just kidding again.
Emmy took a liking to him immediately and confirmed my theory on familial pheromones. His visit comes at a good time; a little later and he’d have missed us, a little sooner and we wouldn’t have had his help in loading our moving pod.
All our things are en route to our new apt on the other coast and we are living quite sparingly for the time being. I went to the thrift store to buy a frying pan so we wouldn’t have to continue scrambling eggs in the aluminum camping mug I forgot to pack and found a pretty pyrex thing that is doubling as our tea kettle. Ah the simple life.
Some things you've missed in Emmy's life these last few weeks: she's crawling, clapping, and saying, "Oooohhh!" She's also got her two bottom teeth in now.
The rest of our days here in the Pacific Northwest will be spent saying goodbye to family and friends and thanking them for the wonderful love and life we’ve enjoyed together the last few years.
