Holidays are different...

Today is Mother's Day in the US, but it did not feel like Mother's Day.  In truth, none of our traditional holidays feel quite the same over here. I was at work today, as well as on Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter, and although we were on break for Christmas and New Year's -they still did not feel the same. Being at work on these traditional days is one part of the difference, but also absent is the commercial build up for each of these holidays. There are no television reminders that these dates are approaching or the planning of how to fit in all the family visits or festivities that usually accompany our holidays. But in some ways I think time feels different here for our family as well. We are used to seasonal changes to show the progression of the year, and although there are two seasons in the UAE (oh my goodness it is HOT, and this is nice), they are not quite the same as the seasons in NH (winter, spring - with a touch of winter, mud, blackfly, sweet summertime, foliage, and winter).

Happy Mother's Day...