Ok so I prayed for the hole in the mountain.
I felt that I could handle the hole in the mountain for a week or two….4 weeks was pushing it.
Being shut off from the world was a challenge to say the least and I started to feel it in places I didn’t expect…
I missed my mom.
I had my last skype date with my mom in Kathmandu on February 6th. I know it seems silly but this is the longest I have gone without speaking with my mom. We usually talk every single day, multiple times a day.
Back up about a month in India when the weather was ridiculously cold and I was skyping her wearing literally EVERYTHING that I brought on the race with me. My sweet Mo (as my siblings and I have taken to call her) figured out how to send a package to me. Through some crazy connections that my mom has she was able to get a 75% discount on the Fed-Ex and God totally provided me with the jacket the week before we left. In the package that my mom sent there were, of course, tons of goodies to include homemade brownies, M & M’s, shortbread, Peanut Butter, leggings, and warm fuzzy socks.
She stuffed notes in the box and I am pretty sure sprayed everything with the perfume she wears because everyone loves how their mom smells.
I opened the package she sent me and just the smell of home was all over, everything. It was so comforting but at the same time I hadn’t missed home yet. It was a good day.
Back to Nepal, mid February, no internet or communication at all and I’m missing home. It’s not serious yet but as I go to put on the warm socks and climb in my sleeping bag I smell the Mom perfume smell and I’m not going to lie, it’s ROUGH. I am trying to hold out being truly homesick because in my mind I know that I can’t do anything about it for 9 more months.
I never thought of myself being a home body. I move all the time but being so far away is not as easy as I thought it would be. I can honestly say it is getting easier and that was a moment.
I do still sleep with the socks on my makeshift pillow of the crumpled up jacket that she sent…but…it is more because they smell good amongst the rest of my stuff that smells like, well, Nepal.
