Im terrible at this ;)

Obviously I am terrible at this.  I promise to do better :)

Things since my last post have been CrAzY.  We went to Scotland at the beginning of April and had an absolutely amazing time.  We spent about 4 days there and took a tour of the city, visited Edinburgh Castle, the Museum of Scotland and Loch Ness.  We had a wonderful time as a family and were completely wore out by the time we got home.

Once we got home, Caleb got very ill.  He came down with a sinus infection, throat infection, ear infection and eventually developed pneumonia.  Anyone who thinks socialized medicine is a good idea needs to come and live in the UK.  I will not bore you with my rant but needless to say I have one....
After 10+ visits to the doctor and a little over two weeks off of work ( which nearly killed both of us for different reasons) Caleb went back to work and hit the ground running.

After a little bit of normal, which for us is slightly organized chaos, I got a call from school that Stephen needed to go to the A&E after a football ( soccer)  injury.  This, of course, happens the day I had actually made plans to go shopping and have lunch with some wonderful ladies I had met.  I do NOT panic when my kids get hurt.  I have three boys two of which are 300% boy and one who is so accident prone he gets hurt sitting down.  When I arrived at the school, however, I was greeted to the sight of my youngest head wrapped up like a civil war veteran.  I may have blanched at the sight slightly.  So I dutifully took him the the A&E ( ER) and waited for an hour for them to take off the bandage and reveal and injury that looked more like a very slight paper cut.  I will be honest here and say that had that injury happened at home it would not have even received an ice pack. Oh, well!! I learned a valuable lesson.  I will ALWAYS  check the bandages BEFORE going anywhere.

We are currently in the process of planning a trip to Paris in August.  This is the one place all the boys wanted to go when we told them we were moving to the UK.  Why?  To go to the Eiffel Tower, though none of them were sure where it was.  This trip is also a reward for all of us for surviving Caleb getting his MBA ( with a 4.0).  I could not be prouder of him.  He has worked full time, traveled, done his best to be home for dinner and bedtime, moved across the ocean to  start a new job and has finished the last three classes long distance with one class requiring him to call in from 2-5:30 pm our time every Saturday for 10 weeks.  Thrilled for all of us that he is done!!!  We are planning to spend about 3 1/2 days in the city of Paris and  about 3 1/2 days at Disneyland Paris.

The boys have about 6 weeks or so left of school and will be off from July 20th until the 3rd of September.  Looking forward to being able to take some day and weekend trips now that we heading into our summer and Caleb will be done with school!!