Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jog

We've been home for five days now and some realizations have set in with being back in the United States of America once again.  Here is a list of observations:

• The best superpower to have is the "I Dream of Jeannie" blink that allows you to immediately be home at the moment that the vacation is over.
• The ride home is always longer and less filled with excitement than the road out to adventureland.
• Upon arriving at our door, we ate raspberries from the bushes along the fence line before we put the key in the lock.
• The raspberries bushes were waiting for us.  The berries are just now ready to eat.  Either they were waiting for us or they desperately needed to be watered.  Regardless, they're yummy and we're grateful.
• The weather in Milwaukee is so much more humid than anything that we experienced for the three-and-a-half weeks that we were away.  
• Our bed is amazing.
• Our shower is wonderful.
• God's timing is perfect.
• Our flight home from Helsinki was safe.  Our luggage arrived from Madrid without delay.  Our home is in great shape.  Fiona and family took great care of our plants, inside and out.  Our family and friends are incredibly welcoming.  Our post office delivered our mail too soon for some reason, and all of our bills, important documents, college transcripts, magazines, and books were completely soaked and ruined.
• Having two thumbs that work is a blessing.  (If you don't know, I sliced a chunk off of my right thumb with a kitchen mandolin on Easter Sunday so I've been without the use of that thumb for more than a month.  Now it's 99% healed.  Alleluia!)
• Fruits and vegetables are much easier to find in this country.
• It will take some time to overcome our addiction to coffee and Magnum ice cream bars.
• Eating dinner at 11pm in Spain was not a habit that we got used to.
• Having the sun set at 11pm in Finland was not something that we could get used to either.
• Days of summer vacation are delightful when spent abroad or at home.  I would recommend a healthy combination of the two.
• It was wonderful to get to Weight Watchers on Wednesday and find that we found out that we both lost weight!
• Weeds don't go on vacation.  They constantly work hard, day and night, to choke up the garden.