Adieu

Mom and May, with Stan the Man (my 5-year old nephew) leave for Sydney tonight. They’d be there for a just under a week after which they are off to Malaysia. May and Stan will then return to Xuzhou in China, 2 weeks later. There’s only a slight chance we will catch them if we make a visit to Malaysia end of the year. Otherwise, we wont be seeing them for a while. Mom seems to have enjoyed herself. We were hoping to re-acquaint ourselves with her cooking but she has cleverly stayed away from the kitchen the entire 10 days, so we didn’t so much as get a cup of coffee from her…  May cooked dinner for us once, so that was great. Otherwise, they pretty much put up with our cooking except for 2 meals which we ate out – one Italian and the other, Chinese of course. I am going to miss that many-people-in-the-house atmosphere. More people meant more work which made it difficult to feel lonely, and time really flies past you when you have a lot of work. With fewer people and therefore simpler meals, less work leads to more time to think about them… hmmm… I will miss them.