We just got back from Pat and Beth's and are getting ready to start battening down the hatches around the coach in anticipation of getting on the road tomorrow morning.
Pat and Beth had a cookout with extended family and our friends Richie and Mary ~ sort of our last hoorah here for quite a while. They do great cookouts - go way overboard with too much food too many sweets, but put their hearts and soles into it - as well as lots of love and tons of work! And, "Grill Master P" is a terrific cook!
AHHHHHHHH the four of us .... - who took this picture? Beth I think - you are so good Bethie about taking the important photos! Thank you :-)
Speaking of Beth - Paige is certainly enjoying the puppet show of five little monkeys jumping on the bed! This was a glove with obviously the five monkeys, but the faces were different on each of them - Paige was very intent on watching the show and listening to the song! An incredibly alert five month old she is ~ very very aware of everything going on around her!
It was bittersweet leaving there today - we are so looking forward to getting back on the road but knowing that we won't see them until February (either in FL or NH) for Paige's first birthday is tough - and we will be missing so many stages she will be going through in that time. We have the same problem with Connor - we only see him twice a year when they were in CA and we were in MA - if Josh hadn't had his deployments I don't know if we even would have been there that often - At any rate we will miss our Muffin terribly (and of course everyone else here in New England that we got to play and visit with while we were here. But this is the life we chose and the life we are thoroughly enjoying.
Speaking of the friends and loved ones we spent time with here since May - The other night I was honored that Amy included me in a trip for her to start wedding dress shopping. How she had the patience to try on all the dresses she did is beyond me. Earlier that day I had lunch with an old friend of the Peck family. "Aunt Corrine" and my mom used to work together many years ago and one of her sons was my "best bud" in high school. Rick and I met up with him (Robert) a week ago to have an adult beverage or two. It was so so nice to "reconnect" with important people in my life that I'd lost touch with over the years ~ how wonderful this virtual world is that is such an aid in reconnecting!
That's it for now ... gotta start getting things squared away - well maybe after a short catnap?!?!
The next post will be from New York.
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