Home feels very good right about now.
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Home feels very good right about now.
I can’t say it is a penance in one sense to stay home as homebody is my nature but when liberties are threatened suddenly it all feels a bit different.

We are home and it is a different “home” to the one we left. We are staying put, keeping our distance and taking stock in ways we never imagined a few months ago. I am weary from travel and have covered a zillion stress miles over the weekend, wondering if the airports would receive us and even if we would be able to leave. There is worse penance than a forced stay in Australia but with our family this side of the world, there is nowhere I would rather be.
I’m home and while I am sitting tight for seven days to make sure all is well I know we are all together and close by.

Here’s the plan.
I thought for however long we are inside I would write a diary, an at-home diary where we mull over the highs, the lows and all in between. Share ideas of how to amuse us, talk about what we never have time for and really make the most of this quiet time. Chat it all out.

If nothing else I am going to be inventive in the kitchen and create nourishing and different meals; we are within such close proximity to fabulous locals I have become quite lazy about home cooking.

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