These itchy feet? are getting scratched!!

Sooo... Hey.... How's everybody been? It's been a while, yes?

*crickets*

*studies non-existant manicure*

*attempts to whistle*

I know, I know. No one is left reading. Not surprising, since I stopped writing a very long time ago. ;)

It's just that, in case anyone stops by to swat at the cobwebs, I'd like you to know that we are actually heading on another little adventure. This one is a wee bit different than the last one, in that Lloyd will be working, all three kids will be attending school full time, and I? Well, I'm left to pick up the pieces of everything else! With the dog in tow, this time. Yup, we're flying her over to The Netherlands with us in a little less than two weeks for a six month stay.

Lloyd has accepted a six month term of employment with *a large unnamed institution that everyone has heard of that shall remain unnamed, aka That Place*. The term may be extended. It may not. We might like this. We might not! But, it has been a hectic couple of months, getting ready for this.

(OH, HELP! I am not ready for this yet!)

(Anyone want to come help wash walls? Pack away extra toys? Run an under 6 soccer team?)

(Anyone??)

*crickets*

One day very soon, I will be posting pictures and such of fun and far away places, and sharing stories of new grocery stores and everyday life in another European country. I'm really looking forward to it, despite the packing that is required to get there, lol! :D

I'm getting itchy feet.

Ya hear that, world?  Do I need to say it louder than a whisper of keys tapping on a computer? 

I'M GETTING ITCHY FEET!!!

I want to go somewhere else. Live somewhere else. Experience a different rhythm to my days and nights, and hear a different language and smell different food and, and, and...

We are exploring different options, to make this happen.  (Shhh, don't tell, but we're still (very faintly) hoping (against hope) that something unique and cool comes through. Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. But the excitement of possibilities and probabilities made our hearts go all a'flutter, and now, how do we sit still again?)

Deferred salary leave has been started again.  Streamlining and purging and renovating the house are very active works in progress. 

I need a place to go. An adventure to target.

Suggestions, anyone? 

It is the twilight of this day (the light gone, early, to dusty grey)

Children are playing, outside, the noise of their delights softly muffled through the cocooning walls of my home, leaving me undisturbed, yet aware of the tenor of play and boys' emotions.

I am soft, happy, drifting...

alone yet not lonely

with my little people, just on the other side of the walls

soon to come crashing through the doors, 

rousing me from my soft deliberations 

once again the hub of their world.

(Oh, what fun and lightness to just sit inside, and listen for a while. Alone.)