Sacha's selfie in his Pig Costume, teasing Chelsea.
Sacha and Chelsea have been Chez Nous for the last week, a holiday at home. I have enjoyed every minute and am thinking of kidnapping them back to childhood. Why do children grow-up and leave home? Well, maybe according to these photos I can only say, "Leave home?"
Sacha retrieved his pig costume that he bought when he spent a gap year in California. He has been pranking us with it ever since.
Our Detox is more about watching Sacha cheat than anything else. Sacha, Yann and Chelsea have lost two or three unnecessary pounds, I have not lost a thing, not a single thing. Of course detox means you need a detox from something. I asked Sacha what we were detoxing from, he shrugged his shoulders, "It is a trendy word that doesn't apply to us, but let's have fun with it."
Some fun. Maybe we should do the opposite and pig out on junk food.
I am sure my weight would have a field day!
Chelsea and I made granola from my cousin Shelley's recipe. Mostly nuts. But while we were at the market to buy the ingredients, Sacha made a pan of pasta and ate it with cream and cheese! He is such a cheater. He even made ice-cream, blueberry, and ate it too, and lost weight. Life is unfair.
After the empty nest, which is a massive adjustment, it dawned on me that the empty nest is three fold:
One, they leave home, leaving use alone back to where we were before children, having to renew and re-find balance in a empty house without the same structures.
Two, the realization that our children most likely are never ever going to live under the same roof with us again.
and three when they do come home it is a mixture of joy, and a hint of sadness cause we know it is temporary. Plus the structure we have redefined for ourselves doesn't apply to them:
Hence, real meals become a trendy detox, with a pig costume.
The other thing that happens when they come home:
Food and toilet paper disappears at an astonishing rate, in all honesty I think this applies only cause of Sacha.
and the washing machine never stops turning, at least they wash their own clothes.
But, I still want to kidnap them.
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