Saturday, December 27, 2008

My life as a revolving door


They come and they go and they come and they go... and my best intention of recording it for all to see has gone right down the tube..... now don't get me wrong... I took pictures and planned it all out in my head.... but we all know one of my favorite phrases..."Man (Mom) plans God laughs"

So what has happened since I last sat down and finished an entry Barry is recovering nicely, we have had a few set backs but he is doing good.




Celia: that's right she made it out of Portland and came down for a great visit, and a job interview. Yes you read that correctly the plan is for Celia to be down here no later than Presidents weekend.... not a drive that I am looking forward in participating in (it is long!) but I am excited about the end result.


Originally she was just coming down for a quick holiday visit. 4 days but we squeezed a lot into those four days.


Visits with friends.... A special performance of the Nutcracker Suite and of course the family Hanukkah party.






and then just a quickly as she arrived..... she was gone... but not for long.



Nathan: no recent pictures (hint hint Nathan) but he is in Florida and is the go to guy if you are interested in buying or preparing fish... he will also be starting EMT school in January.



Sammie: Sammie did come down for a great Thanksgiving dinner with Gledhill and Indian Hill Lane. And then she was gone.... back up to Davis for a short 3 weeks... but they were a very busy 3 weeks finals, packing and the return of "Just a Friend Rodney" who has officially been upgraded to "Boyfriend Rodney"...who has been in the Netherlands for a semester, but now he's back and Sam wanted to be there for his arrival. Finals were over on the 11th and they drove down on the 12th which really made Shomers night.... because he just loves Rodney. But It was a short gathering because Sam was gone again .... on the 14th let's be real she was only here for the the 13th because by 6:30 a.m. the morning of the 14th she was on her way to New York and then yes you guessed it ..... off to Israel!



Bubbie asked her "Why are you going to Israel this time?" and Sam said "Because I can!!!!"




She is having a great time and will be home for a short moment on Dec 30.
now for those of you who have been listening to the news Sam has said that they have had some of their activities altered because of the Gaza bombing but on the whole they are doing great and there is no danger.



Morgan: didn't come out for winter break......and she was missed.... so what is she up to...she is getting ready to be an ADULT that's right in just 1 month I can't believe it. Oh yeah she will graduate High School in June!


and that leaves....

Ashleigh: who is sailing on the Mediterranean as I type, but again I am jumping ahead rather than bringing you up to date. Well one of the exciting things as far as I am concerned is that Ashleigh has started blogging.... yes she has her own blog. it's a work in progress but it is being worked on and that is the important part.



So Ash and Shomer have had a busy couple days since that last post, mostly getting ready for her trip to Israel. Yes there are two of them there at the same time but again I am ahead of myself.





so she was with us when Celia arrived.



then She went with Celia to see Paige dance in the Nutcracker and then to family party and before we knew it it was December 25th and we were off to the airport...





So way back in March of this year we had a visitor...Ashleighs partner from Israel and now it was her turn to visit. This time we didn't have to leave as early as we did for Sam... so when someone asks what we did for Christmas..... we (Barry, Bubbie, Ashleigh and I) will say we went to LAX... to say good bye.... which brings me full circle. Ashleigh called us at 3:00 in the morning on Friday morning (Friday night her time) to say she had arrived safely and was looking forward to her trip and that Shira's dad was going to take them sailing on the Mediterranean Saturday afternoon.


So the only ones left to write about is Barry and me...and we are just enjoying the peace and quiet and working on getting all those jobs done around the house that we have been putting off.

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