A Friends' Boost

"Seeing my friends, seeing how well they’re doing, and the amazing progress their kids have made, was very gratifying...-continue-..."

While we just got the news that we are being kicked out of our house for the THIRD time in two years in this miserable country...it seems that we at least did something right...

I think our Dutch friend in the US said it wisely, and it made me grin: "...you learn from whatever life throws at you (some of it, I am sure, is stuff I throw at myself)".
If we learned one thing from this whole experience it is that we need to take the red flag warnings along the way, of whatever decision we are about to make, a bit more seriously. A couple of months ago I felt I was fighting my intuition about moving into this house. So I can blame myself, but really we couldn't have known that the development company was planning to flatten this lot so quickly! I still doubt that bulldozers will already show up in December, so we are trying to reason with the 'big guys' to let us stay untill Summer....

We will see what the outcome will be. I've thought very strongly about moving back early to the US with the kids...but seeing how well they do in school, I refuse to leave just yet...

Thanks friend...

A Little Souvenir...

~From the One-Dollar Store~

Summer in America...

Country Village, Bothell, WA

A glimpse of Mount Rainier

Seattle, WA

Remember 'Twin Peaks'?

Snoqualmie Falls, WA

I call this "Scene from the Stepford Wives"

mmmm, devilled eggs...

Ballooning in WA State

Shelter Island, San Diego, CA

San Diego, CA

Shamu, in SeaWorld San Diego, CA

Back Again!

Wow, my last post was back in Aprill!
And what was going on in the mean time? Mostly vacation! I know, I'm spoilt rotten currently, but I'm taking advantage of the fact that I wasn't tied down by work, and that we had the opportunities to travel....Enjoy it while it lasts...yes?

We escaped the UK just in time to avoid the storms and floods, to enjoy the sun in Seattle and San Diego. After that it was time to drive to Holland to visit some family.....and on the way there and the way back my son retrieved me from the eighties and kept me awake with Linkin Park. Hey, it stuck! I'm a fan now!

After a visit from a Dutch/American friend it was time to explore a little of the Highlands up north. Beautiful..... One afternoon we sat at the water at Ballachulish and it just hit me how quiet it was! Just no sound....no cars....it made me want to move to the country; am I getting old?

Pictures will follow...