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Too snowy for our plane
It snowed in Crested Butte yesterday as we left to go home. We stopped in the main town for a late breakfast at Izzy’s (enormous pancakes and Bombay potato and egg wraps – delicious!) We wandered...
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Christmas in Crested Butte
Christmas in Crested Butte was truly beautiful. Firstly we had to get a proper Christmas tree and it’s always nice decorating a tree – even better when you get to do two in one Christmas season!...
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Christmas Day Mk II
Finally back in Houston, we were able to have Christmas Day Mark II. The girls had been surprisingly agreeable when we’d said that we wouldn’t be opening the presents as soon as we got home last night...
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Longamericanholiday: 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 8,500 views in 2012. If...
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Does this look wrong to you?
Polar bear cub in the microwave! Obviously it isn’t a real polar bear cub! It’s one of those heat-in-the-microwave alternatives to a hot water bottle and we’d got one each for the girls for Christmas....
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2012 – a good year
If you’d asked me what I’d wished for at the beginning of 2012 my answer, if I was being brutally honest (which I only was with a handful of people), would have been that I hoped that the planned move...
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Our new years eve treat
The girls decorated their secret hide out, as is their tradition now for special occasions. I wasn’t allowed to see inside all today and it was only once my Lovely Husband came home that we trooped...
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Putting on a show
I have many memories of putting on “shows” for my family from an early age with my sisters. It started with Christmas song performances when we were tiny, using the curtain in front of the French...
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Will you do what we say?
We went out for dinner to celebrate my Lovely Husband’s birthday last night. The girls came with us and having eaten next to nothing of the delicious food (well the Little One ate 10 large...
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New Years Eve and new traditions
New Years Eve is always a dilemma – to stay in, to go out, what to do with the children. This year we ignored the posh party at the club and a party invitation, and stayed home with the girls. The...
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A little bit of sunshine…
Here’s some sunshine for those of you in very rainy England right now. The Little One is staying for longer days at school next week whilst I’m in England (briefly!) for work, so today we are...
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Driving in the rain
It’s not until it rains here that you realise what a terrible state the Houston roads are in. Obviously you notice the 5 inch difference between different lanes on the dual carriageways and the...
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My children are braver than me…
I’m off to England for 3 days later today, so this morning I took the girls to school and had to say goodbye to them there. Normally I drive up and the teachers get the girls out of the car (known as...
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Frost is very pretty
I arrived to a very cold London this morning (-2c). After a quick trip to the BA lounge for a shower to wake me up and some breakfast, I found the hire car and started my drive to my first meeting in...
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Don’t book a flight when I’m flying…
So, here I am with yet another cancelled flight because of snow. The only difference this time is that there isn’t actually any snow here yet in Heathrow. It looks like it might snow quite a lot later...
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Day 2 at Heathrow
Yesterday was a very long day involving 2 cancelled flights, 2 hours queuing to re-book my flight, 8 hours standing around and 5 hours sitting on a plane that didn’t take off. There was very little...
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We’ve been in Houston 1 whole year
This time last year we left our house in Reading early in the morning, when it was still dark, having said goodbye to our friends and family during the previous week. I cried all the way to the...
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Pyjama party aftermath
Last night I went out with some friends and left the girls at home with their best friends from school and their daddy. The Big One and her friend had been planning what they were going to do all week...
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Homemade Ice Cream
One of the presents that the girls got for Christmas was an ice cream maker that you need to turn by hand (thank you Dad!) The girls said they wanted to start an ice cream business when we visited a...
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