Clueless in the UK

I am going to start today’s entry with something that is hard for me to watch, and hard for me to believe, and therefore I want you all to suffer as well.

The Daily Show and the Pig:

Even I wouldn’t be this bad of a president.

So, when I moved to Seattle I wrote email back to all our friends and family and said things like:

• Boy it sure is beautiful here, more beautiful than the Bay Area
• Boy the traffic here isn’t as bad as the Bay Area
• Boy the houses are nice and affordable here.

When I got back one of my friends pointed out that I had sent all those obnoxious emails, and I was embarrassed. Especially since, once I got back I had already written more emails along the lines of:

• Boy it sure rains a lot in Seattle
• Boy the summers are only 3 months long in Seattle
• Boy in Seattle they brake for sunlight
• Boy the roads really suck in Seattle

Of course, now the roads really suck in California, but really, I am trying to break a cycle here. After this blog entry, that is.

I really REALLY like our Hampstead house and neighborhood. Today, for example, we had about 8 of the neighborhood kids in our house, running around, etc. Later, one of the other moms came by and introduced herself as one of the kids’ parents and then she took off with her kids and our kids to a local ice cream store.

Yeah - I know this kind of stuff happens in other parts of the world, too, but just not with us, at least not since we were kids.

Anyway, the kids were running around like yesterday, in and out of the various houses, playing soccer - oops, I mean football - and heelying around, and we grownups were off doing our own thing. The kids are in heaven, we’re in heaven, what more could you ask for? Apparently there are two more families with young kids that are out of town, right next door to us and the one over from that, AND, one of them has a 13 year old who just loves to baby sit. Things are LOOKING UP BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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