Can I come back in now?

Well, hello again. This blog feels like a room that I haven't been into for a while. Excuse me while I blow the dust off everything. . .
Life has been 'happening' at quite a pace around here and not much of it has been very photogenic I can tell you. Nothing really bad has happened (just so you know) just a succession of crappy and unfortunate things. To be exact - one very broken car, the only working car bumped/ crashed ( by yours truly) in a way that is not worth mending,  the courtesy car from the garage that is mending the broken car, breaking down, then a small person contracting chicken pox and a cancelled postponed holiday to America due to said pox. How rubbish is that? And we still only have one car . . .which, by the way, wouldn't start this morning.
Anyway - we are attempting to fly tomorrow if nothing else goes horribly wrong. The pox are well and truly scabbed over and hopefully we won't get too many funny looks. Just a 7 hour flight to go then - hooray! Anyone have any ideas of ways to occupy a wriggling 11 month old on a plane? At least she is a girl who loves her books - but there's a limit to how many of those you can lug onto a plane.

Obviously this picture is pre-pox! We're reading a book called Sharing a Shell, a truly lovely story with slightly too much glitter!?

It's nice to be writing again. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up with myself over the next few weeks and share lots of photos from our travels. We're going to Washington D.C., Chicago and New York. Any suggestions for amazing galleries, museums, shops and restaurants would be greatly appreciated . . .

Back very soon!!

Comments

[Louise]

Poor little thing! But at least she's had it very early - does this mean she's immune now or could she still get it again because she's so young? have a great time in the states! pop by magnolia bakery in NYC for a cupcake if you get a chance. Let me know when you're back and I'll try to pop up to see you all or maybe we could all meet halfway somewhere? I seem to remember someone's got a special birthday coming up!!! Love to you all. xxx

[Amy]

You'll get to the U.S., but yeah the timing of things is sometimes horrible..sometimes everything hits at ONCE. So glad that you came away from it all with health and happiness intact.

That is the sweetest picture of you two! Love her little gesture with the finger in the mouth and the way your hands are, together.