Homesick Day

It's one of those days when "home" sounds really good.  It's ok, it's nothing dramatic, just a "missing home" kind of day.  It started at Tesco yesterday, when I had to pay £2.99 for 350 grams of cherries, imported from Spain.  They looked so good and it's been ages since I've had cherries, and believe it or not, £2.99 was the 50% offer!  (£2.99=$4.90, 350 grams=0.7 lb)  I was also really hungry for sweet corn, but for two small ears of sweet corn, of course already silked and packaged, I would have paid £2.00 more.  Sigh.  So that started my list of what I'm missing today:

1. Sweet Corn: Freshly picked from the field and cooked by my Nan.  Umm Umm Good!

2.  Cherries: Protected from the crows by Pap, handpicked by us girls!

(our very own cherries! Memorial Day, 2010)

3.  Sunday Dinners with the family

(This picture is from years ago!)

4.  Baking with my Nanny!  I made Chocolate Chip Cookies last week, and now I think I'm about to make Peanut Butter Cookies.  We've done so much baking as a family, and now, when I bake on my own, it brings back those special memories.

5.  She may only be a dog, but I miss my little Mischief!  She's a goof but then all creatures born at Mtshabezi are :)

I enjoy my life in London, and I'm feeling very settled and established here.  Even though that is the case, some days, especially days when it has rained five times, I miss Pennsylvania.  If you have the opportunity, go enjoy some cherries and sweetcorn for me!  I'll go make my peanut butter cookies ;)