1. We moved from Germany to Rhode Island. It was a thing. Our energies were engaged with move "stuff."
2. Curtis came back from Afghanistan. Yippee!
3. I took the kids on a marvelous 2-week cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean. I know, you are perhaps not feeling bad for me there, but it certainly occupied some time.
4. I am a hopeless Facebook addict, but I have given up all games. That's step 1 of 12 -- right?
5. My Amazon Kindle is my new best friend. I'm sure Curtis is regretting that he ever got it for me.
6. The kids didn't have any friends to play with this summer, they were very much around --over, around, under, and through.
7. Did I mention the whole international move thing? How about shipping the van, all our worldly goods sailing over the ocean blue for 3 months, hotel living, trying to figure out how American works after being gone for four years, and endless unpacking? Or that I prepped and sent out all of those worldly goods solo while Curtis was still in Afghanistan? Or, one of my personal favorites, that I gave myself a concussion walking into the underside of the second story deck of the house not once, but twice on the day we moved in? Like I said, it was a thing.
8. It had been so long since I've written I couldn't figure out what to write. (I know, lame, but true.) It's kind of like not returning a phone call for so long you don't know how to explain yourself, so you just don't call.
9. American TV, DVR, and Netflix on demand.
10. Rhode Island isn't called The Ocean State for nothing. There are beaches on this here island, and we arrived here June 19.
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