Coming Home

Spending time in Chillicothe Ohio is very much like coming home, or visiting family, close family.

The Fellowship of the Ring

The kids are getting along as if they've known each other for years and seeing them playing outside in the slopy garden hanging from the tree branches, blowing soap bubbles, walking up to the apple trees or down to the old shed is breath taking. They become so small by the distance between us as they are walking away from us.
On the downhill they are all holding a rope as if they were undertaking a grand expedition.

We took a walk in the woods, and looked at deer tracks, the kids,looked at a deer skull that must have been there for years.
We got to a little stream and they climbed up a pretty steep hill after a little encouragement on our part in the style of "I bet you can't go up that hill'.
The day ended with me eating a piece of beef jerky after seeing, fat sick and nearly dead, a movie about rebooting your body by drinking juice for 60 days

i came downstairs to see the kids play together this morning. Matthew's English is fantastic and Julian is making progress although his trail of thought is more one of, if it ain't french it's either Hebrew or Dutch and since we're not in Israel, Dutch it is.

The auction at the Mennonites (Amish people) was like being in a movie. Impressive dress code and impressive distance people keep from you in the way they respond.
Everything in the States is big, and the sizes of Cantaloupes or watermelons ain't different.

The evening was filled with Indians, Americans taking the land, guns, horses, canons fired, and tragedy, at the open,air amfitheatre, during the play 'Tecumseh'.
The play lasted three hours with a break, we dreaded the worse but the kids were absorbed by it.
I don't know who jumped harder or who reassured who as Julia(6) cuddled up to me, when the first gunshot sounded, and when Jill(7) and Julia were curling up to me as the canons were fired I suddenly wished we had girls. A seat further you could see Matt getting excited the more fighting and blood the more his expression went 'YES' !

What a great few days, I felt today the load of the, anticipation and struggle of a close to a year preparation of this trip dropping of my shoulders.




Staying here has been a blessing, apart from Joe making me realize how big the RV we rented actually is, I was so comfortably denying that.

Location:Charleston Pike,Chillicothe,United States