MorMor (and MorFar) Visit

MorFar has started a new phase of his career that will have him in Philadelphia frequently (read about it here). He made his first trip this week, and we planned for MorMor to visit us while MorFar was in Philly. So we saw MorFar on Monday and Thursday on his way in and out. Which was great. And we got MorMor for almost the whole week! Which was even greater.

It is ironic that we sold our big huge house, just an hour north of Philadelphia, with guest room and extra bathroom and lots of space for houseguests… just two months before my dad made this big career move. So here we are, in an 800-square-foot apartment, on campus, with zero houseguest space, and the chance to have my parents around now more than ever. Life is crazy.

We don’t regret it though. We are doing what is — there is no doubt in our minds — exactly what we are supposed to be doing right now. But it is a bummer that we can’t better accommodate my parents while they are here. So, as always, because it is my one and only life-long for-better-or-for-worse MODE OF OPERATION, we do our very best to make lemonade out of lemons.

We squeeze MorMor and MorFar into this crazy little life of ours as best we can. We are snug as a bug in a rug. And lucky for us, they roll with the punches.

MorMor spent a ton of quality time with the bambinos this week. There is so little we need to worry about now (cleaning, cooking, weeding, washing… all the things MorMor always helped us so much with in our old house… these things are minimal for us now!). The beauty of that is that now there’s nothing to do but really be together. And together we were this week.

{One night we even took MorMor to dinner in the dining hall! photo below!}

MorMor and MorFar left yesterday morning before the rest of us were even out of bed. We miss them.