Its been 5
weeks since we left Cyprus and the ‘holiday-feeling’ seems to be lifting!
Yesterday, as we drove home along the beautiful Garden Route, Ethan asked when
we were going home to Cyprus. Again I had to explain to him that this is not a
holiday, that we are not going to be returning to Cyprus to live there. ‘I’m
missing my friends, Mommy’, he said. I think we’re all experiencing that
‘missing-feeling’. (I remember my friend Sheila telling me that her younger
children had done the same when they first moved to Cyprus a few years back. I
thought Aimee might not have understood the finality of our move, but now I
realise Ethan doesn’t really understand it completely either.)
They say
things happen in threes and I might be writing today’s blog entry too early (as
the third one might still be in process!) Today 2 friends have called from
Cyprus to say hello, taking me quite by surprise! When Yvonne called this
morning I was so excited to talk to her on the phone, but when I got there and heard
her voice I just burst into tears – tears that flowed often during our
conversation. Oh, how I miss her! And Maria! And Nikolas and the girls! Oh, we
miss them all. (We also haven’t had much contact with them since we left, so it
was really good to hear from them!) I realised that as we keep ourselves
busy on this side doing our schooling and exploring, meeting people and going
places, we don’t have to think about how much we’re missing our friends in
Cyprus. But, we really are!
Just a few
hours later Oupa put Skype on to make a call and called to say Jane was
calling. It was wonderful to hear her voice too and we had a quick chat
catching up on things that have happened since we last chatted via email. Her
side of the connection was broken quite often as she spoke and I was often left
guessing how the pieces of her sentences fitted together, but we managed to
have a good chat anyway! And that was the cause of my 2nd good cry
of the day.
Shjoe, we really are missing our friends in Cyprus. As
beautiful as SA is and as nice a time as we are having, today I’m really
wishing I could pop into a friend for a few hours and just chill over a cuppa
while the kids play with their friends. So, while we may have left you and you
may be getting used to the quiet that has created, do know that we love you and
miss you very, very much!
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