The world is so often full of gloom and doom. Somedays, I find myself thinking ENOUGH ALREADY! There is so much to be joyful for! Let’s think about that for a change. So, I ask you, got any good news you’d like to share?
I do. Our extended family took two vacations this summer and, for the first time ever, my three US based kids (my eldest lives in India) each brought their significant other. One we’ve known for a decade, one for three years, and one we met for the first time in July. The glad tidings? Not only do I like (and approve of) them all, the six of them got along swimmingly. I watched them, each evening, play Mexican Train or Code Names or Durak, laughing and chatting and oh! how it gladdened my heart.
How about you? What’s warmed your world–in a good way!–lately?
Just finished booking a cruise on the Danube for 20-27 December. We will be in Vienna on Christmas Eve. Can’t wait to be pampered, fed luxurious food and drink and I won’t have to lift a finger. Bliss to be away over the holiday period with my husband. Hoping for a Viennese white Christmas. 😉
So jelly. What line?
Saga. UK company, over 50s only!!
I have some UK friends that were telling me about that company. Sounds lovely. Enjoy!
MiniCaz #1 and I are going on a trip to the Netherlands at the beginning of Sept. It started life as a short break in Amsterdam, but when we realised we could go for more than twice as long if we stayed outside the city somewhere it grew into a 10 day holiday! It’s just the two of us, so my first time driving in Europe without MrCaz and his maps in the passenger seat!
Then we’re all going on a short break to the Cotswolds at the end of the month (a visit to Blenheim Palace is on the agenda) – probably a last hurrah, as any future travel plans have been shelved given the forecasted near doubling of energy prices from October.
Oh! Both trips sound like so much fun! I hope the weather is fine and the details run smoothly for you.
Thank you -and yes, fingers crossed! We’ve had an unusually prolongued period of good weather here, so I hope it lasts a bit into September and stays dry, at least.
I love Mexican Train! We haven’t played it in years, so it’s time to break out the dominoes and the nice wooden “hub” a friend made for us. 🙂
We recently got news that the visa approval for my daughter’s finace (from England) is finally moving forward. He should hear the date for his interview by the end of this month, and he will know by the end of that interview whether it has been approved. We have no reason to think it won’t be. It’s a “fiance” visa, so he’ll have 6 months to move here once approved, and then they have 90 days to get married. Since marriage no longer confers a green card, he will have to apply for that as soon as they are married so he can find a job. Hopefully that will be pro forma since why would they allow him into the country to marry and then not let him stay and work? But it IS the government, so who knows for sure. We’re all so excited! they haven’t seen each other in person in almost three years because of COVID and because her chronic illness makes traveling tricky.
Other good news is we have a family wedding (my side) at the end of Sept in Asheville, NC. It will be the first time since my mom’s memorial service 3 years ago that we’ve all been together. In fact, I haven’t seen most of them since then, again due to COVID.
Lastly, my husband’s employer has allowed him to permanently work from home, which is what we’d hoped for. It knocks off the commute and gas usage, and he’s more productive from home. In fact, his company’s productivity in R&D increased significantly during all remote working. It’s almost as if all these computer geeks like being in their own space! How knew? 🙂
Wonderful – but also interesting – that everyone’s “good news” is related to trips/travel. I hope everyone’s plans come off as planned . . . our European river cruise in May did not. (Covid quarantines.) No regrets and c’est la vie, but we’ve pushed out any more travel for several more months. In the meantime, everyone in my personal orbit is healthy and (generally) happy and graduated and working; and life is slowly getting back to more normal routines and atmospheres. I wish the same for everyone else, especially those at AAR.
So sorry that happened to you. Here’s hoping better trips are in the distant offing for you!
Thank you! There will absolutely be better trips in the future – and that one will stand out and be memorable. We had a great time while it lasted – we only missed the tail end. Mostly, I was just struck by how excited everyone is to be traveling with loved ones again. And how grateful I am that everyone around me/us is doing just fine. It feels good. Like there are some silver linings beginning to peek through some of the doom and gloom.