What do you do after you move into a new house?
You go on vacation, of course!
We’ve had two weeks of trips planned for a very long time, and despite the acknowledged insanity of leaving a home partially unpacked, throwing the clothes you can find into a car, and heading out for two weeks…that’s what we are doing.
Week one is being spent in the Green Mountains with Buddie’s family. We keenly feel the missing family unit that had to stay behind in Nashville. Zachy especially misses his best buddy, but we are having great fun getting to spend time with all the other cousins.
Zoe is proving herself to be a master storyteller for the younger set, and Sweet Juliette, for some unknown reason, is preferring Uncle Chris to Aunt Jennie. Buds and I are having a work morning at the house to get some breathing room for the rest of the week, and this is a gorgeous setting to work in.
The beginning of Gems Week: