Dawn of a new day.

This morning I awoke by 06:20 a.m. after forcing myself to stay up until 03:30 without any sign of the Luggage Delivery van. It felt like Christmas, getting up and sliding across the kitchen floor in socks to get a peek outside to see if the "luggage" was delivered. Sure enough it was, sitting there in the cool August morning.

Promptly I brought it in and rolled it into the bedroom where both children were asleep, one of whom was more sound asleep than the other. (Jet lag has a firm grip)

We traveled to the local shopping Mall after she awoke just to give Aya an overview of what was out there, we also stopped and stocked up on about $120.00 of groceries - encouraging her for some input. For the most part, she seemed to be fine with whatever was purchased. Of the items she chose herself: Miso Soup, Cocoa Puffs and Apple Juice

She got to wittiness our youngest daughter get her ears pierced at Claire's. Then went looking at other stores after I pointed out where my oldest daughter likes to shop: Hot Topic and

In the evening she offered to help with post dinner clean-up and did the dishes with our youngest daughter.