After the Voyage: Getting Back to Normal

Things are getting back to normal here in the Compound. My in-laws are back from their 47 day European vacation. 


This morning as I was cleaning up breakfast in the kitchen, I heard my father-in-law singing opera to my daughter in the other room. He was singing a lovely chorus of, "I am right, and you are wrong."  


A bit later, my father-in-law and my two year old son were playing what sounded like a fun game. Trying not to alarm either of them, I stepped in quickly. The blanket that my son was covering my father-in-law with to "tuck him in" was the same blanket that I had just put in the laundry pile after changing a diaper. There really was a significant amount of shit on it.