Togetherness

In a little over a day Beth and I will be off to France for spring break. We've never left the kids for more than a day or two...this time we'll be gone for ten days! The grandparents are stepping up big time for this one...thank you, thank you. Meanwhile we struggle with feeling alternately giddy and anxious.

Added to this is the emerging possibility of a general strike in Paris beginning the very day we land there. Stay tuned... our hotel is only a couple of blocks from the Sorbonne the place where many of the protests have originated. I sometimes get pretty sleepy in museums so the prospect of witnessing history in the making actually has a certain titillating appeal. I'm not sure the mothers in our group share my voyeuristic inclinations. The main rule is to get home.

Here are the reasons why...