Hi handsome,

Today was actually a little better. It was another beautiful day here, so that helped. It’s now the Pennsylvania weather of wearing a hoodie and pants in the morning and then shorts and a t-shirt by the afternoon.

I realized that it’s been two and a half weeks since we got here and that’s the longest we’ve been here since I moved away in 2012. The longest we ever came to visit was two weeks. Maybe that’s why it’s felt odd being back, it has been a “quick and temporary stay” these last thirteen years. If we stay long enough, it’ll start to feel more permanent.

I was listening to a podcast today and they were talking about things that I needed to hear with everything going on. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe it was a little push from you.

I haven’t unpacked all your Lego sets yet from the bins. I don’t have a place to put them right now without our household goods here. However, I was downstairs looking in the bins, which are not completely unpacked yet, and it just felt wrong for your stuff to still be down there. I put a lot of your things from your room in Hawaii in your room here, but they’re just on a shelf in the closet. Again, I need a place to put them. Our stuff is still in Chicago, so who knows when it’ll be here.

I might take some time tomorrow to just sit in your room and try to put things on the wall. I want it to be a space where I can feel like I can go and connect with you. Maybe that’s why I feel farther from you.

I miss you terribly. I love you more than anything, sweetie. Goodnight and sweet dreams.