We Made it

We made it to London safely and without incident. When you're faced with a long travel day, it is so nice when everything runs smoothly. The plane was delayed a bit, but it just put us in here an hour later than we anticipated. All in all, not that big of a deal.

Maddie slept until 11 a.m. today--when I woke her up. Will try to get her to bed at a normal time tonight and get her up a little earlier tomorrow. It's still another week until school starts (much to Maddie's chagrin), so she's got time to get on track with her sleeping.

I got up when Skip headed into work-around 7 a.m. Bet he has had a GREAT day. Fortunately, he doesn't fog up as much as I do while I'm adjusting to the time change. My head feels like it's been stuffed with cotton for about three days, but he really bounces back pretty quickly.

Before I can regale my faithful readers with tales of living in the exciting city of London, I have to get the house in order. And a small house it is. The downstairs is great, but trying to find places for all of our stuff in the bedrooms is getting dicey. Thank goodness I got addicted to Style Channel's Clean House this summer. Am already using some of the tricks I learned from their organizing guru. I need to figure out what England's version of the Container Store is. And paint--we're definitely going to need some paint. Am really hoping the landlord will give us the okay to do some painting. If I learned one thing from my first ex-pat experience is that camping out for two years in a house that doesn't feel like a home is no good. I'm making the effort on the front end with this house whether we're here for a year or two.

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