Snow Snow Everywhere!!

It's snowing again, kinda wishing we were back in the Caribbean - that trip now feels like a lifetime ago. Early Friday morning we made our way up to New Hampshire to take Joe back to University. All 5 of us went for several reasons, its about to be Katies 18th Birthday and part of her gift is to go snow boarding on some incredible New Hampshire mountains, of course Joe and Elliot did not want to miss out on that. We are considering buying a house up here for Joe and friends to live in and for us to use (if not wrecked by students) as a vacation home. Colin has diligently been researching for weeks, had set up visits with a local realtor and so on Saturday we looked at 12 houses - phew I was exhausted. But it was fun, we looked at some really disgusting stuff and some really dreamy-take-me-now stuff. Joe and Colin will continue the search, the decision is really up to them, I will just be called in to clean and help furnish a new place but it is an exciting project for all of us. So, of course whilst stuck in New Hampshire we got caught by one of those aggressive New England snow storms. We are leaving today and hoping to make it back to Pennsylvania in one piece. Having lived in Wisconsin for several years we are pretty experienced bad weather drivers but you never know whatever other crazies are on the road.

Since coming back from our little New Years break we seemed to slip back into business and chaos a little too quickly. And then January is such a blah month dont you think, the extreme cold we have been experiencing in Philadelphia just seems to add to the everyday effort it takes to get through the day. Grad School is busy and intense as always, as is work. Life has that feeling of getting back to normal with everyone back at school and work. It was really lovely having Joe home for a few weeks but it was very obvious he wanted to needed to go back to University so we are hoping he has another great semester, we are sure it will be a good mix of acdemics, social and snowboarding - not sure if it will be in that order but hey his priorities may be different than ours!!!