i think that says it all...

Painted by Grandma Mary aka "Maury", Built by PapaRon.

We are here
we are roasting our little tails off
we escaped a tornado by roughly 6 blocks a few days ago
Don has just gone back to work and is working like a maniac
he loves his new office. the ppl are very hardworking and he likes the idea
of really jumping into the fold but there is a lot on the schedule already

and meanwhile... we are househunting.
it wasnt the plan to buy but with the market the way it is, sometimes you have
to test it out, right?
and since when do we follow the logical chain of events?

So we are hunting. Im keeping one foot in the rental market while visiting amazing homes and applying for mortgages.
The dollar goes a lot farther here than in San Mateo but we wont be living the high life just yet. Definately a starter home and grandma rose had better get ready to help us fixer up! LOL
since we are the least handy people you know.

Madeline is having a hit or miss kind of time here. She is very gregarious normally but has been putting her head down saying "shy" now when we meet people. She asks for Elianna and Benjamin around the clock, refers to Nana, Papa, Tina and the cats as either "Lina" or "meow meow".
we are keeping her connected to friends with pictures and videos but i think she just misses what she remembers as her everyday life. The park, her friends, her school, playgroup.
I do too.

Well. We move to Silver Spring in a couple of weeks to a lovely, artsy, colorful, musical home for a summer sublet and then... who knows!

We hope to make or welcome some roadtrippers over the next few weeks and in the meantime we are getting to know our extended family here (Aunt Peggy, Rosey and Dimitri).

This has been a long one but we havent updated in a while.
I hope to get some of the house photos off the cam and some new pics of M up soon.

Im sorry if there are emails in cyberspace from you all that i have yet to return.
I will eventually, and i appreicate hearing from you all.
Missing CA and our life, holding on the promise of something more secure here on
the East Coast.
Love to all,
xoox
*ashia*