Reveiwing the intinerary

Adios Mexico! gotta love that song...

We're heading out tomorrow for another three week stay in France. Yes I said another. It feels like we just got back from one of those. When I think of all the travelling we've done these past months it boggles my mind. Charlotte will have done two international voyages before she´s four months old (not to mention the two she did while she was in my stomach)! She´s either going to grow up a nomad or a rebel homebody who refuses to ever move again. I always told MY mom I´d be the latter because we moved a lot when I was a kid. Look what happened to me. She still thinks that´s funny.

Anyway, the reason we are going to be gone for so long is because The Company wants Seb in France for some meetings related to the Proabable New Position and they wanted him to come next week then come home and then come back again a week later. Seeing as he didn´t want to abandon us that long (and I´ll kill him if he does that to me again), he worked it out so we could come with and hang out in Paris doing the check out visit thing and strolling around sighteseeing (sightseeing with a toddler and a small baby in the freezing rain ...hahahaha!)

Afterwards we will head to Normandie to see the family for a three or four day stretch and then maybe go and see our house in Haute Savoie for a day or two, (against my better judgement because I honestly don´t want to stir up the I-miss-my-house emotions on top of everything else going on right now--those emotions are pretty fierce). Then we´ll head back to Paris for more Company Business (and presumably more sightseeing for me *sigh*).

Gone for so long our grass will certainly die here in Mexico and the carefully planted trees and plants we invested in will surely suffer. The pool will turn murky again and the bottom will take on a fine layer of black soot. This house requires a lot of maintenance! When I think of what we did, bringing the barren lawn back from the dead it makes me crazy to think we will leave it all to die again. The landlord doesn't care about this house.

And we´ll miss Mexico while we´re gone. Right now I am digging out winter coats for our trip. My sister in law said on the family blog that the children enjoy the videos we post because they like to see the sunshine and they wonder out loud why we´re never in pantalons. I will explain to them when I see them that Mexico is not a place where you have to wear pantalons very much because thewonderful sun is always shining and pantalons are usually opitional. Then I will give them their firey-hot bon bons and as usual their imagination will reel with excitement about this place where tata and tonton live. I´m going to miss that wonderment effect if we move.