I'm THANKFUL...

I'm thankful for really (brutally!) honest family...who have reminded me multiple times of how much I really suck at blogging. Thanks, Mom!! So here I am, trying to redeem myself! We hope everyone back home had a wonderful Thanksgiving. If anyone would be willing to flash freeze a Honeybaked ham and express ship it over here, the four of us would be eternally grateful.

Well, there's way too much to update. Just thinking about everything I want to share gives me anxiety, so I'm just going to touch on some important points that I want to remember when I'm 90 and senile:

- Summer was beautiful here, but man, not having air conditioning made the 70 degree weather feel like 100. It was also really muggy, with no beach to jump into. My hair wasn't happy.

- We spent an AMAZING two weeks island hopping in Greece. One of our friends was going, so we decided to follow in their footsteps. It was miserably hot, but Sifnos and Folegandros were beautiful and I pretty much ate my body weight in gyros. I did order the local dish of baby goat...that didn't go over very well!

- Almost immediately after we returned from Athens, we got right back on a plane and went home to California for the rest of summer (I hate and love Bank of America for this). I got pictures of myself eating awesome food that I can't find in England...but I won't force those on you. Needless to say, I packed on a few lbs, but it was worth it. Thanks again for the 10lb slabs of chocolate, Ansel!!

We got to see (and hug!) our families and quite a few of our lovely friends. We'll be back next year! Let's just take a moment and remember how awesome tapioca is:

- The kids had a short 6-week summer break, so school started right after we got back to Henley. During their half-term break in October, we took the Eurostar to Belgium and spent the week in Bruges-the most enchanting little town we've seen yet. If you're headed to Belgium, don't miss it! Brussels, on the other hand, you could probably skip!

Anyway, I gave myself five minutes to write an update and while there isn't as much detail as I'd like, I think I was successful...right Mom??