Homecoming

Home again.

We spent the weekend in Indiana. Stayed at the farm with Mikkel and Mauricio, the exchange students from Denmark and Brazil who are spending the school year with my sister and her husband. With my brother-in-law on a mission trip and my sister running a marathon in Washington D.C. as a qualifier for next spring's Boston Marathon, we volunteered to stay with the boys.

It was Homecoming weekend on the Purdue campus. We met up with Paige and Rob, Hannah, Andrea, Evan and Rose and Haylee, Tamra, Jeff and Tamra's parents for Purdue's Night Parade. It was fun to see it through Haylee's joyful eyes!

Late Friday night Kate played with a band Matt Scherger recently formed, The Early Blizzards. They opened at Scagnoli's downtown. The band's first public appearance and we were lucky enough to be in town to see them!

Saturday morning we took the boys to the booths on Purdue's engineering mall for freebies then sent them off with Paige and Rob for the game. Saturday night we carved pumpkins--a new venture for the boys--and Sunday morning we went to the early Mass before going out for lunch.

Kate rode home with us tonight. She has a class in Cincinnati tomorrow so I'll take her to her class and she'll ride back to Indiana with a friend from work who is driving over in the morning.

As much as we miss our friends and life in Indiana, we're settled in here now and it felt good to get home tonight. Kevin is already asleep. I'm not sure he ever really feels rested these days but we'll shoot for quiet evenings this week and see if that doesn't help him catach up a little.

It's a different homecoming tonight. Quieter, no parade, no band. But a homecoming nonetheless.