Getting Ready to Get Ready

Working on list of the things I need to do/get before we shove off on Monday. Lots to squeeze in. Our friends the Kastens are holding a little get-together for friends of ours on Friday night, the Allen clan is coming to our house on Saturday and Mom and I will make two local television shows to promote our new book What's More Fun than a Funeral? between now and then. We also are setting up some house painters (inside and out) to do some work after we leave and need to make sure our mail forwarding system is in place.

Maddie is one big ball of emotion. She's had a big summer. Camp, Bible school, sleepovers. She's lost her two front teeth, learned to dive and has finally mastered the art of jumping rope. This year, she doesn't have the luxury of going back to a familiar school with familiar friends, so she's not quite as excited to be leaving her friends and her house and her grandparents. I'm sure she'll be great once school gets started, but I don't think getting there is looking too appealing to her right now.



Fortunately, Skip did a lot of the legwork this summer. He got the internet/phone/tv hooked up and scored us a car for weekend trips to the English countryside. All of our stuff is already there as well, so when we land we can just go ahead and start living rather than be bogged down in the details of a move. Maddie's international school starts August 23, but English schools don't typically start until September, so August is a big kid's activity month in London. There will be a number of fun things to do with Maddie until school starts, so that should ease the transition.

Skip and I have both checked quite a bit off of our list of stuff to do, so hopefully the weekend can be about enjoying our friends and family here in LR before we head to the big city.