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How can it be February already?  It seems like just yesterday that school started. My last post, gasp, seems to be from August. How can that be? I thought that when the kids got older that I would have more time to do things I needed/wanted to do....where has that time gone? I think I have less "time"  now that ever before. Since my last post, the boys have started school.  William to High School(9th), James to 6th grade and the last year at the elementary school(yay!!) and Thomas to 3rd grade.  When we moved here William was starting 6th and James 3rd.  I have walked some of these roads before.  High School is a new adventure. Fourteen is a new adventure. Summer photos don't represent the W now - he is transforming. Christmas Morning - 2015 Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas have all passed.  We enjoyed them all. Here are some photos to prove it but Thanksgiving seems to escaped documentation. I didn't send a Christmas card for the first tim...

A month is a long time to be away.  We left Vermont on July 2 and returned on August 2nd.   Our journey south reconnected us with family and friends and the gentle rhythm of the South. I miss the South. There is something easy and familiar about it. Mountains to city to beach and back, it was great to be with friends and family. Here is a snapshot of our visit. Highlands, NC - right before James re broke his arm :( Lemmon/Bugg IOP beach week Sun and Sand Papa on the silly side :) Thomas - joyful Thomas James in cast number 4 - what a trooper William and Grandmama the morning of departure - now 5'10 Visit with Aunt Marianne and Uncle Pat Grandmama's early birthday celebration  boys on Sunset Beach, NC Kayaking at sunset on the marsh Bill and James My boat pal, Thomas Dinner out - what a treat! New beach house sign

There are opportunities presented to us here in rural-ish Vermont that we haven't experienced before. Really interesting events and sights that seem more of a weekly occurance than out of the ordinary.  It is these events and happening that continue to draw me to this place and land.  It is hard to explain until you experience it first-hand. Last weekend there was an event held on a small airfield in Post Mills, VT.  The airfield is home to a local ballooner with world wide fame. Once spring arrives, he can be found at dawn and dusk, when the wind is right, taking folks up in his hot air balloons.  We have even had the experience of "chasing" him to see where he would land and having the landing site be the fields of Thetford Academy right behind our house! The event started last year and we didn't make it. This year I was determined to go.  The boys were un-interested in joining me and Bill was still in a meeting, so I went on my own.  Bill later j...