Life: Idiotropic

Sorry for the lack of blogging. My mom is here, so we've been having too much social time for me to possibly sit long enough to type without seriously neglecting my much needed beauty sleep. Just tonight I sat through two complete episodes of Gilmore Girls - a show that Tiara and I are proud to have gotten my mother completely hooked on. It's not for everyone, but it's a intelligent comedy that feeds my undernourished sense of humor, so I am grateful for an excuse to sit and do nothing while watching it.

We went to Bruges, Belgium last week for a couple days - an absolutely beautiful city that I will blog soon. We've planted flowers and cooked and cleaned. We've gone to coffee shops and just had a generally mellow time which is very good sometimes. Sunday we went to Tongeren - one of my European happy places. And this weekend we'll have a little gathering here to celebrate Elise' birthday.

The kids are all great. Everything is generally normal which means that at least one of my children has some issue that I need to deal with. This week it's a registration tussle for Tiara at AFNorth and the continuing quandary of what to do with Arianna's education - the battle of American vs. German education systems.

Mom leaves Monday and I will try to catch up. I am embarrassed to say that I still need to blog the Austria trip from Feb, the Normandy trip from April, and now the quick Bruges trip. It will happen - really - as soon as... well, let's just say, soon.

Oh, oh, oh... and I just almost forgot. I will be blogging the Blue's Night! Think, German Blue's Band in the living room of a eccentric Romanian artist/cook/antique dealer living in a tiny village near our home. Prosecco and quiche. A ceramic pig with 4 baby piglets. And, of course, after only two photos, my camera battery died. I'll just have to go back.