If anyone’s noticed, I haven’t been writing much lately.  Ever since this pregnancy began, way back in the summer, I’ve found it very hard to sit down and write very much.  First it was the morning sickness and utter fatigue of the first trimester that stopped me.  Now, in my second trimester, new issues have cropped up. 

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m not into ‘luck.’  I don’t believe much in ‘fate’ either.  But I can’t explain the change in our lives since we made a commitment in summer 2007 to move to Costa Rica.  Business picked up.  Consequently we were able to afford our scouting trip.  We fell in love with CR and came back with a single, defined purpose: making our dream real.  And knowing that it was more than possible.
Two weeks ago, we found out about a rental, which we have now secured.  A gorgeous …

For the last couple of weeks are cats have been acting up, each in their own way. They know the mess in the house is for a Reason and not the usual. The leader of the pack, Penny (7), has been a total %$*# to the other cats, smacking the others at the slightest provocation. If I pick her up and she’s not up for it that second, she makes a beeline for her closest sibling and starts a one-sided cat fight.
The others are thankfully not as cranky. Phoebe (~11) …

Yesterday I had to break a sheet of ice off our car & sidewalk. It was frigid. Right now I’m inside and my feet – in socks – are freezing. Yet I am blissful and dreaming of hot, sunny days. Ever since we decided and committed to living our dream and moving to Costa Rica, things have been different. Good different. Our outlook on life changed as we had something to work towards that wasn’t a random deadline to do something personally meaningless. …

In the last 3 days, there have been 125 google site searches for ‘this-is-a-crumpet.’ I don’t get it.