Summer Vacation

This summer, in our tradition of never having a simple move, we are filling the calendar with complex plans. The weekend of June 13th the kids and I fly to Austin (alone - if you hear screaming over head, it is probably me....) for 10 days. I'm so excited! Jake can't come, so we won't mention the chicken tortilla soup a Cuerros, Maria's Taco Xpress, Margies on the deck, Artz rib house, Central market, fresh tortillas, free baby sitting, Austin live music....Jake will be attending new faculty summer camp (a workshop for new faculty) in Williamsburg. Then Jake drives up to PA to pick me and the kids up from the Philly airport and we all drive to Kutztown (now referred to a Ktown!) to interview nannies and CLOSE ON OUR FIRST HOUSE! Then it is off to Boston for a weekend vacation to visit the Boston Commons and Make way for ducklings statues and attend a wedding of a friend of Jake's from highschool. Then we keep on going for Weld, Maine and a whole month at the lake house. Richard and Dinny have set up a office for us in the new boat house, so we will be able to work on our classes between water skiing and sailing (or napping in the hammock, I don't sail until Richard fixes the Highlander so I can nap on the deck there). Egan will eat sand. Elena will follow Jane around. Then at the end of July, Jake and richard fly back to Blacksburg, load the truck and drive it up to Ktown. I drive down with the kids from Maine (alone in the car for a whole day - can you say DVD player?). My parents arrive in Kutztown to help us settle in and unpack.

Don't we have great parents! They thought they were done when we moved out of college the last time - wrong! We pay them with grandchildren cuddles....it seems to work.