If you click the link below in blue you will get the PDF Holiday letter.<\/p>\n
It was a hard one to write this year since we are in the process of moving again. \u00a0We have no start date, or in fact, no specific job. But we are envisioning that we will be leaving Germany in the next six months or sooner. \u00a0We would love to stay. \u00a0Of course it is all very nostalgic for us now as we attend our last Christmas Markets and prepare for our last family ski trips in the Alps. \u00a0We part ways with our European experience with heavy hearts. But it has been a year in the making. \u00a0Landstuhl Regional Medical center seems to be falling apart around us. \u00a0The joke is that CJ has been playing the violin on the titanic now for a year. \u00a0We just adore his colleagues and it is so sad to know we will all be scattering to the four corners of the world.<\/p>\n
But I guess these are the stakes when you play big like we have been in life. \u00a0It would have been so predictable to stay in one place. \u00a0I know it is never easy, whether you stay in the hometown you grew up in, or if you are like us and travel the world. \u00a0But I can tell you that moving every three years is exhausting! \u00a0I am getting pretty good at setting up a house. I can get it all unpacked, art on the walls, curtains hung and looking like a home in about six weeks. \u00a0That is six weeks of NOTHING else though. \u00a0It is torture.<\/p>\n
So, wish us luck as we prepare again for a major move. \u00a0Hershy and Aly will be in their little cat carriers for a long flight home, under our seats hopefully. \u00a0Everything we own will be boxed and crated. Vehicles sent on a ship, plants given away, basically anything that has dirt on it, tossed or given away. \u00a0It is always quite a project. You really have to respect our military folks who do this all the time! \u00a0God bless those families. It is much work, loss and expense with restarting and rebuilding homes.<\/p>\n
With that I am off to bake my last Christmas cookies in this house in Germany. \u00a0The upside to knowing it is your last season in a place is that you don’t take anything for granted!<\/p>\n