I am home….

I am finally home from my teaching trip the UK and Spain. Feels *so* good to be home. I can't even tell you how happy I am. So happy to hug my boys. I missed them intensely.

I know I dropped off on the blog posting…and there are reasons for it. To summarize what I've neglected, let's turn to the technical writer's favorite tool, the bulleted list:

• Taught awesome students at Scrap-A-Mia in this beautiful location:

• Stayed in Kent, UK with Jane Dean…saw the medeival town of Canterbury and went to France for a day through the channel tunnel.

• Enjoyed beautiful Spain where I did lots of sightseeing and taught more awesome students at Bambola Casa Creativa.

• While I was gone, our home was robbed. My oldest fella came home from school & saw the studio was trashed, the window broken, computers gone. The thieves took anything of value…very violating. It's just stuff, and I don't care about the stuff. Stuff can be replaced. But it's horrible to think people were in my home (and there for a long time because they scoured the house, went into bedrooms, dumped drawers, etc). We were all very rattled, and now I am home & we're handling it all. It's putting me behind on deadlines, but c'est la vie. I look at pictures of Joplin and other areas that have been devastated by tornadoes and realize that this robbery really nothing in the grand scheme of things. People there have lost literally everything…some have lost loved ones, the most precious thing of all. My thoughts and prayers go out to the affected families.