10 weeks and 4 days after our arrival home to Australia, life is back to ‘normal’.  I’m still amazed by how quickly we have just slotted back into life.  Maybe because we have returned to the same house, same jobs, same school, same dog.  Same Same But Different, as they would say in Cambodia.  All that sameness but a big tinge of difference too. 

I still have great...

Sorry to all my readers who are wondering what has become of me.  I’ve been swamped by ‘normal’ life.  My head is just starting to get above the water after so many things to do upon returning to Oz.  Don’t look in my spare room because it still houses all the ‘stuff’ I haven’t housed yet.  Mostly our home is back to what it was before we left.  We are all back at work,...

Here is the link to a little article I wrote for my local newspaper, The Chronicle. I promise I will get back to some regular updates about our return to ‘normal’ life soon – just as soon as I get my head above water and clear my list of all the things to do when returning to regular life!

http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2012/01/30/we-never-left/

We missed out on a white Christmas but finally, just days before leaving America, we were lucky enough to get some snow.  The kids had a wonderful time hanging out with our friends the Graham Family; who were also fantastic hosts.  Miss you guys!

Another article for The Chronicle newspaper that you may wish to check out:

http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2012/01/13/four-dots-back-home-australia/

We arrived into Los Angeles about 6.30 pm after travelling all day from Columbus Ohio via Baltimore Maryland.  Still can’t quite work out why we had to fly from the Midwest to the east coast to get to the west coast but never mind.  After all our flying experience we were totally prepared for a long day of travel with all gadgets recharged; water bottles ready and a supply...

Here is the link to my article in the newspaper about our journey home:

http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2012/01/07/homeward-bound/

Photos will be updated as soon as I have received my camera cord in the post from America!

After a month of hanging out in Ohio, we had to say goodbye to our wonderful friends.  We had such a great time catching up with all my Rotary families and high school friends; especially seeing all their cute offspring!  On our last day we met up with my friend Sara and her gorgeous girls at … McDonalds, the one with a huge playground in Brunswick, Ohio where Harris and...

Where did 2011 go?  Well, everyone, who has religiously been reading our website knows what we got up to this year.  If you don’t know what we did then you’d better go back and catch up!  For the fourdotsonthemap, 2012 started in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA with our good friends and wonderful hosts, the Hoffman Family. 

We had a wonderful night with great company; an abundance of...