Well, I am back – one week late but I have already forgiven myself for that and hope you will too.

It was a spectacular vacation – hard to even know where to start in describing it all.  To ease myself back into the regular blog posts and writing I thought I would start with a quick tour through our vacation through the eyes of my mom.  During the trip, she wrote a 10-part series of elegant, descriptive, and thoroughly delicious emails about her experiences here – R is now uploading them to his blog and adding photos.  The first one is here. And the second one is here.  The rest will be coming over the next few weeks.

I will be back this Friday with my weekly gratitude post 🙂