That’s it. The children are officially on summer break and tomorrow we’re off to New Zealand. Olivier and I were making last minute decisions for the kitchen and bathrooms today. There are still more decisions to be made but at least the important ones have been done. In a couple months we’ll have a spanking new home! Or at least that’s the plan. But more wonderful is that I won’t have to see Olivier scouring the house with his measuring tape any more.

The kids had a good school year. When we were in France Christian’s favourite thing to share at the end of each school day was the lunch menu. Obviously American lunch menus are not such a hot topic. More along the lines of how he has to suffer listening to Hannah Montana on the way home from school on the bus and the time the raccoons left droppings on the seats that stunk the bus out and how the bus driver (who is French) swears and how the boys think he’s funny. Which is fortunate for the boys that he swears in French.

But I can’t believe another school year has gone by. Soon it will be my birthday and then it will be Christmas.