Time Flies

I wrote down today's date, 30 June 2010, and realized that in exactly a year from today our family will board a plane and move back to the States. It was a sad moment for me. This has become our home, and a place I love dearly. We have changed since we moved here, enjoying the slower pace and the English countryside. Our kids started school here, our baby was born here, good friends have been made here, and we have loved almost every minute of our time here. With only a year left, there is so much more I want to see and do. I want to take the family to Paris, London, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Barcelona, and more. I don't think we can fit it all in, and if I tried Dave might ask for a long vacation from me, NOT good. I still have restaurants I want to try, and places locally I want to experience. There are places/restaurants I want to revisit (some multiple times). And honestly, I don't want to watch my kids' accents slip away, my heart hurts just thinking about it.

But on the flip side, we miss our family and friends in the States. We miss good Mexican food and stores open whenever we need them. We miss the US health care system (sorry, after 2 years of socialized medicine I am not a huge proponent of it). We miss TiVo (our DVR system here is neanderthal in comparison). We miss having our own home that we can paint and decorate as we want. We miss warm summers and powerful thunderstorms. In truth, there is a lot we miss.

I guess what this all means, is that this next year is going to be bittersweet. And I don't want to miss a day of it. So if posts are slow in coming at times, just remember, we have a lot to do this next year.