Monday, January 7, 2008

Happy New Year!

Seven days late.

It's been a slight whirlwind ever since we left for "Christmas in Michigan" last month. A whirlwind of visiting, eating and illness with no end. So, due to a travel and recovery-induced hangover, it's taken me a while to post anything over the past 4 weeks. Sorry 'bout that.
We managed to get all healed up for our New Years Eve with friends. Ari was recovering from his second (yes, second) bout with allergic reaction to antibiotics. This can't be good. All in all, we landed in the clinic three times in a little over a week. Once with bronchitis and twice with an allergic rash. To different antibiotics. Oy vey. New Years Eve day found us praying for a short line in the waiting room because we had to truck down to our friends outside of Detroit that evening. Luckily, it worked out. Ari was prescribed a steroid and we rushed through our showers and instructions to grandma and hit the road.
It was a wonderful, quiet New Years for us. With good friends, good food and good laughter. God bless them, they had offered from the beginning to host us for the whole night so we wouldn't have to drive. That turned out to be fortuitous for a couple reasons. 1) a bottle of wine each, and 2) eight inches of snow overnight. We woke up New Years Day to the most beautiful winter wonderland imaginable. It actually made me want to move home and deal with winter again.











However, by the time we were getting on the plane back to San Diego (after experiencing two major snowstorms in three weeks), we were all ready to leave the snow. Ari had had it up to here with the snow pants and jacket. His mittens wouldn't stay on and he couldn't move with all the padding. He's not used to that. He's used to going outside, unencumbered, anytime he likes (well, anytime I like). He's, well, he's soft. Southern California soft. Crap. Now, I've always been soft...don't like the cold...but I didn't want to raise my kids that way. Huh.
Anyhow, we've been back for a few days now and "Wendy's Got Her Groove Back" so it's time to update the blog. Not much else to report other than it smells like eucalyptus and pepper trees with a hint of jasmine outside, it's perpetually in the 50s and 60s, usually sunny and there's a 10 minute drive to the beach. Now if that's not an advertisement for come visit over the next 3 months, I don't know what is.
Happy '08 and love to you all!

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