What to do?

We've been back in the U.S. for more than a month now and I was beginning to feel like so much time had passed, that just too much had happened for me to continue the blog. I didn't think I would ever catch up. In fact, there were still plenty of posts I wanted to write while we were still in Germany. But the last few weeks in Germany, life suddenly sped up and I didn't have the time and wasn't in the right fram of mind. And then even here, it took a month for us to get internet. What to do?

I thought about just letting the blog die as it was a month ago, but them reminded myself that one of the reasons I was blogging was to have a record of our stay in Germany. I've been telling people all along that at some point, I wanted to have the blog printed and bound as a book (there are plenty of businesses that will do that), a perfect memoir of our German adventure. I couldn't do that if the blog wasn't completed.

So, I will continue blogging, but it won't be in chronological order. I'll be back tracking and blogging as if I were still in Germany, and then jumping ahead and doing an entry from the U.S., whatever strikes my fancy. I'll indicate at the top of the blog when I add an entry from the recent past. I hope to catch up at some point, but it will take a while.

Just to recap the last month, we flew from Germany to Atlanta on July 10 and moved into David's one-bedroom apartment he had been staying in since he started his new job with Lufthansa Cargo at the beginning of June. A few days later, we moved into a three-bedroom apartment and then about 10 days after that, we were able to move into our new home. Yes, we did buy the house with the beautiful front porch. We are still, however, without our belongings, so some of use are still sleeping on air mattresses and for a few weeks, we were eating our meals standing at the kitchen counter, or in the case of Emilie and Rebecca, sitting on the kitchen counter.

All the kids began school this week and so far, so good. I'll blog in more detail soon about that.

And for those of you wondering about the golf cart lifestyle, for which Peachtree City is reknown, we are renting a 4-seat golf cart at the moment and will at some point buy a six-seater. Peachtree City has 90 miles of paths crissscrossing the town and while cars still dominate, you see plenty of golfcarts. I take the kids to school/the bus stop on the golf cart and my goal this week is to drive it to the store when I need something instead of taking the car.

Here is the parking lot at Micaela's high school.

Otherwise, all is well.  Stay tuned.