Return to a Dream

I have no idea what I'm doing but everyone has to start somewhere and sometimes it is better to just jump in and learn how to swim as you go...use floatation devices.. otherwise life will pass me by before I can learn and be perfect.  I have soooooo much excitement in my soul and I need a quick venue for putting it on paper.  Blog seems to be the venue of choice.  Thank you Kristiana for inspiring me with your existing blog on the trip to Homeland, thank you PromajaJack whose writings I have enjoyed reading, and thank you to my (my husband's) niece Branka Rodic who got married a year ago today to Nenad Stefanovic so I was motivated to start writing today because it was a most incredible feeling to be a part of her wedding day.  I will finish off for now just to test out how it works and then come back to walk the memory lane from a year ago starting with Branka and Nenad's wedding day.  It was start of a 5+ week trip thru Srbija, Crna Gora, Bosna, Croatia and started with Dream Wedding 1 and ended with Dream Wedding 2.  Milena accompanied me on the journey but she started a week earlier in Italy.  My title reads "return to a dream" because the first dream was in 2000 when we met Miroslav's sister and family for the first time in our lives and Miroslav got to meet his half-brother and half-sister for the first time at the age of 50.  When you are dealing with brothers and sisters there is no "half"; there is only "brat" (brother) and "sestra" (enderment "seja") (sister).  We were not sure how it would be; how we would be received at that time because it was less than a year since they discovered they have a brother Miroslav but the bond was INSTANT and OVERWHELMING, not just for Miroslav but for myself, daughter Milena and son Marko who were part of it.  Our son Petar has not experienced that joy yet as life gets complicated and just have not managed it yet.  Returning to Seja's place in Zemun brought back the memories of trying to find them and the "pinch me" feeling of relief that we did find them and now we are part of their lives and they are such a big part of ours. The return to Zemun, the reuniting of part of the family, representing the rest of my family is like a dream.