Back ta Brooklyn: Personal Notes

We are enjoying, savoring really, the last future perfect moments before we pickup our older daughter from JFK in a couple of hours, who is returning home after studying in Europe for the year. She has traveled, experienced, and grown. We last saw her in December-January when we all spent the holidays together in Rome. She was away for her sisters' final year in middle school and her brother's final year in high school. She was away for the bulk of the 2008 election campaign, election night, and the Obama inauguration. She was away for the first wave of the swine flu in NYC. Away for various birthdays, hers, her mom and sibs. Now she is returning. Versed in a new language and culture. We are getting set to welcome her back to the ranch,this new person, welcome her back to her parents and siblings at home, back to famiglia. Back to Brooklyn.