Serious Thoughts

The 10 days at the barn were heaven. It snowed virtually every day. We skied 5 days, had some family down time, had a rocking time with my sister Ann, Doug, and the "Bower boys", Connor-16 (thanks for the blogging), Colin- 13 and Cormac -10. An impromptu party arose as we drank way too much wine with Linnae and Sandy and ended the night at Casa Del Sol.... We saw our friends Tess and Linda and Rick from NYC and met some new Saranac Lake/Manhattan residents for dinner at Caribbean Cowboy. Joe and I snow-shoed ( after Casa Del Sol). The boys found new ways to tempt the fates by sledding down a new steeper hill that shot them off a rock. We had a brief visit with Joe's dad and enjoyed some nice catching up before he headed back down to civilization. Oscar and Cormac discovered their mutual love of Monopoly and Annie and I are hoping they will fund our retirements with this business acumen. Our neighbors stopped over and we enjoyed the fruits of Joanne's baking. Our house was in constant chaos and never seemed cozier. We tried to be grateful for every last minute.

Yesterday was truly depressing as we headed back to the city. We kept putting off the inevitable, not leaving the house until almost 6pm. Joe is usually quite sage about these transitions but even he admitted it was getting very difficult to leave these days. We have to get serious about how to make this our permanent home.