Just an Update... fast and dirty

Well the first two months of this year have been busy but not full to the point of no relaxing. We have been able to spend time with family and friends.
I attended the Sea Dogs Xmas exchange it was great fun as always. The kids and I also had a great time with 12th night!! My Mom got a puppy, which means we have a puppy when we go camping this summer. Then came, Brennan’s 16th birthday, which was celebrated with a small fanfare. We did manage to make it up to the snow for a great weekend at Snowflower, the place were we normally spend many a camping weekend. The kids were quite pleased to find out how Snowflower got its name… Whew that was just January!! February has been a little quieter, babysat for friends for the weekend, two birthday parties and one crab feed… I am helping to teach a sewing class.

March proves to be very FUN. I leave for Paris on the 12th I can’t wait I am going with a few friends and leaving the kids at home (NOT by themselves) it will be a good trip. Its not like I NEED to get away from them, this is a trip that has been in the works for about a year and a half… When I turned 39 I was bemoaning the fact that 40 was just around the corner so the idea that was posed by friends was to go on a big trip I chose Paris… And we are really doing it we opened it up to whom ever wanted to with us! There are seven people going should be so much fun, I love to travel. I had to get a new passport I have been haunting Paris websites. Making lists of places I would like to go, things that I would like to see, things that I have to pack. I will be flying by myself, something I NEVER have done. Spending a whole day in France by myself and truly I can’t wait!!!

I have to say it was odd making all the arrangements for this trip, choosing the seats on the airplane for one, looking for a hotel for one. When the idea was first broached I thought my hubby would be going with me but in the last year in a half we have separated. I also thought that my best friend/sister would be going also it was mostly her idea… But her ‘real’ sister is getting married this weekend across the country so two trips in the same month is not in the cards. My other best friend/sister is going but she will be arriving several days after me but I am so looking forward to this trip so I am on the plane by myself… which on one hand sounds pretty GREAT and on the other is sounds a little well scary.

The best news is I will have some kind of computer in Paris and internet access… so I will try and post to here while I am gone if for no other reason to keep it all straight in my own head.