Travels and Travail

October came and went in a blur. It used to be a favourite month but this one is best forgotten. My trip to the UK went from bad to worse with continuous immigration problems. I reiterate travelling has become taxing and traumatic a means to end not a journey to be enjoyed with anticipation, more like agitation. I could I suppose stay home but the situation I find myself in with Chica 1 half way across the world does not allow for that. Chica 2 is chomping at the bit to join her sister which can only increase my travel woes. Anway I digress after missing flights/buying and selling tickets/going without a decent sleep for 3 days I made it to Blighty. The up side was I managed to hit the best week of October weather Britain has seen in decades. I crammed in visits to family/friends and Chica 1's school and kept asking myself why I wasn't living in my home country and when would I ever return. Of course when the sun shines it's easy for me to see London through rose tinted glasses. Given the current economy I am probably better off staying put for a while.
We returned to Lima with food for thought concerning school applications for Chica 2.Oh the excitement of filling in yet more paperwork, getting teacher recommendations and convincing chica 2 that her entry exam and essay is of vital importance. Then comes my anxiety over losing another daughter to boarding school (most likely not even the same school as they are chalk and cheese) and worrying about how chica 3 will be affected. Although she does make me smile when she says "finally I get to be an only child" I feel this is bravado on her part. Our family will never be the same unit with the girls going every which I only hope their experiences are mainly positive and they don't end up in therapy hating their mother!