There are some things I will never get used to living in the UK, no matter how long I live here. First, in late Spring and early Summer the sky never seems completely dark. At 1am, standing outside, you can see light on the horizon. Its also light around the 4am hour. When we went [...]
Archive for June, 2008
The last day of June
Posted in England, children, expat, family, house selling, parenting, spain, tagged family, living abroad, Summer, Sunshine on June 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What gives?
Posted in family, tagged Add new tag, oil price on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ever feel like there is a mass conspiracy out there to ruin everyone lives? I am not big on conspiracy theories but right now I would buy it. Why is the price of oil so high? The more I see and read the more I believe its the speculators and worlds stock markets. We hear [...]
Nerja, Spain
Posted in expat, family, spain, tagged holiday, nerja on June 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A few weeks ago we went on our bi-annual holiday to Nerja in the Costa Del Sol, Spain. I had never thought of going to Spain. It had never been on my list of place I must see. But when my husband, then boyfriend, suggested a trip, I jumped at it. Why not? I fell [...]
Something every day.
Posted in expat, house selling, tagged moving, packing on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am trying to do one thing every day that will get us closer to our move. Yesterday it was cleaning out a cupboard. Today we went through the coats in the front porch, went through all the junk stuffed in the kitchen and sorted and thrown things out. I also went and cleaned out [...]
Jeff
Posted in expat on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I first came over to England 5 years ago my husband took me on a “pub crawl” around town. We went into several pubs and it was nice. We ended up in the British Legion. Immediately I was welcomed in and everyone was so kind to me. So kind that I ended up working [...]
One step closer.
Posted in expat, family, house selling, tagged expat, friendship, moving on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are one step closer to our move. S went to London this last week and had his medical done. They did the typical blood work and chest x-ray. All should be okay. Next step is the interview at the embassy. Nearly 1 year after we started this whole process there is finally light [...]
Crocs.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have always loved any clog type shoe. I think they are so cute. Especially with jeans. I like ugly shoes too. I grew up in Birkenstocks. They where the popular shoe in high school. Maybe that is where I got my taste for ugly shoes. I have very wide feet. I have big feet. [...]
Fear.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ever stop and think of how we make life changing decisions? Is it boredom? Is it want? Need? Or is it fear? Or is fear the thing that can stop and paralyze your life? We have made the decision to move to the states. We made this decision a while ago. But fear is always [...]
