The First Post

Welcome to our new blog which will chronicle our move from The Woodlands, Texas to London, England. Since most of our friends have kept up with our lives until this point, we are going jump right in as if we have been blogging all along.

Today, the Realtor came to take pictures of the house. Hopefully we can get the house on the market tomorrow but it may be Thursday. We aren't really worried, though. It is a great house in a fabulous neighborhood in the service area of the best elementary school in Texas...and I mean that! Our neighborhood epitomizes the urban family, except in the suburbs, and our elementary school has the ratings and awards that back up my high opinion.

Now that the house is finally clean and ready for showing, I feel like we can relax a little. There is still work to be done but we won't be doing any more packing for now. The hardest thing will be making sure we leave the house in order every morning. We are off to a good start, though, with all beds in the house made this morning. Kevin and I even made our bed together this morning! It felt oddly satisfying to do something so domestic together considering that neither of us possess a dominant domestic gene. Made me feel all warm inside.

The reality that the school year is racing to an end is causing some serious emotional distress for me. Today, I got all teary-eyed during recess when one of my 3rd graders told me how much she is going to miss me next year. They have no idea how much I am going to miss them.

But it is too soon for the sad stuff (even though I just had to grab a box of tissues). There is much work to be done yet.

I need an emotional boost so I think I'll go do some shoe shopping. I've got my eye on a pair of pink Louboutin sandals and some Ed Hardy rain boots. Zappos, here I come!