Cause You, And I Are Back together....

And so it was that Thru the departure gate came MY BOY. 

I couldn't say anything, because Himself, and Toolibelle had NO IDEA, and Toolibelle had an exam this morning.  We were doing NOTHING to impact on the exam timetable. 

We drove home - Boy is the only person in the world who talks as much as me, so there were two conversations on-going all the way down the road, as we both tried our hardest to catch up on a year and a half of Atlantic separating us. 

Boy text his dad on the home straight, as me, and Said, "I have you a surprise".   and Himself text back "Hmmmm".    I said "Don't text any more- he'll give me into trouble for texting when driving. 

I pulled in the drive, Boy jumped out and stood in the dark part of the drive.  I opened the door and shouted "Come and help me get your surprise out the car"....

He came out very tentatively, shaking his head.  He told me later, he thought I had bedecked the car in Christmas lights. As he came out and peered into the car, Boy stepped out from the shadows.  

Oh boy.  Was he surprised. 

So it was all quiet, until after Tooli's exam and we headed over, and tried to suss out where she was.  We found her in the back of a restaurant with her fellow Matheletes, and me and himself wandered up to her.  

Her mates all went silent, and she looked up and grinned at us like a looney - she stood up from the table and i thought she was coming for a cuddle... but she pushed right past me and said "where is he". 

We stood there stunned?? We were "how???" And she said, different things had been happening and she had been slowly putting it together, she hadn't said anything to anyone, but on the bus into town from uni, she had said to her mates, "I think my brother might be coming home for Christmas".

And there he was.  And the two of them just hugged and hugged. 

And now - we are home; having left them in Edinburgh getting ready for a night out... to head back up tomorrow to bring her home for Christmas ...

Which is gonna be a good one.   - Once I get over the horrific feelings of guilt ..... I am so stressed out and exhausted - cuppa tea and then amma going to bed.  


I apologise profusely to everyone who has asked me if Boy was coming home.... in the last three month s:-)