MORE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES

I MUST blog soon about "What we did on Summer Vacation."

BECAUSE it really was a wonderful trip filled summer, but a MUCH BIGGER reason is...

We've planned a trip over Christmas break to spend 24 days in London and Paris. If I don't blog summertime before London, I'll never get back to it.

But first, a little about the upcoming trip - Last spring, Lee Ann, my daughter-in-law got a job offer to spend 12 months in London. She went in May. Tom, Sarah and Ben followed in June. Casey followed in July.

When Lee Ann found a 4 bedroom apartment in northern London Tom announced to his church that, "Lee Ann found a 4 bedroom flat so we have a guest room and would like any and all of you to visit." A woman came up to him and said, "Tom, does that mean that I now have a bedroom in London that I can trade for my apartment in Paris?"

SO - with a free place to stay in London and an apartment in Paris, we decided this was, as Tom so beautifully put it, "the opportunity of a lifetime, or at the very least the opportunity of a childhood for Emily and Andrew."

We've bought the airline tickets and I'm working on line to buy "Wicked" tickets because we couldn't afford them in NYC last year. Yeah, we couldn't afford NYC theater prices, so we'll see it in London instead.

NOBODY ever said I was a logical person.

You've probably gotten tired of hearing this, but

MY GOODNESS, I love Salem,VA.

The high school has a published zero tolerance attendance policy. Miss 10 days in a semester or 20 in a year and you receive 0 credit, regardless of your grades. I talked with the Vice-Principal. He said, "Give me the dates when you have them and we'll work something out. I'm certainly not going to be the one to tell a 14 girl she can't go to Europe."

Salem Schools' motto is "Children First: Every Child; Every Day."

It should be, "Common Sense RULES !"

God is GOOD and LIFE - in Salem - is GREAT !