Saturday, August 23, 2008

Home Again

This is a bit late, but maybe better late that never?! We have been home for almost a week. We had a great time in New Hampshire. We enjoyed our time at the beach, as always. The weather even cooperated with us for those couple of days. I can't say that for the rest of the vacation though. It rained just about every day that we were in New Hampshire. Needless to say, it is nice and green and very humid there! Thank goodness, the rain didn't hinder any of our plans. We got to spend time with most of Tom's siblings, that was also great! We even got to meet our "first" Fifield niece! That was also cool, she is a beautiful little girl. We always stay at Fifield Inn when we are in New Hampshire. Tom's brother & sister-in-law are always gracious and let us come and stay with them (hence, Fifield Inn) and have lots of "sleep-overs", that's what their little kids call it. We also got to go see them at swim lessons and boy can they all swim. Puts me to shame, for sure! We also went to our favorite ice cream place. It's called Johnson's and do they ever have great ice cream. I never thought I'd only buy a baby size ice cream, but it is almost more than a person can eat. We really enjoy our trips to the ice cream place.

We also spent some time with some of Tom's cousins. It was great for me to meet them and Tom to see them after about 20 years. We enjoyed talking over old times and genealogy. We were able to add a bit more to Tom's families genealogy, which is always great! We really enjoy the trips we get to make to New Hampshire to see Tom's family. It is just hard being so far away from family, whether it's Tom's family on the East Coast or my family out West. There really is nothing more important than family.

Of course, it's always good to get home again! And it seems to take awhile to get back into the swing of things. Is that a good enough excuse to not have posted in almost a week? I'll be adding photos soon! I still have to upload them to the computer.