Ex Ex Pat Scheiners

 It is hard to fathom that six months has passed since we left London.   Sometimes, it just feels like a dream that we were even there. What do I miss?  I miss the accents, the closeness of our neighbours and being able to walk outside and see Saul standing on his slide just waiting for someone to come out so he could have a chat.  I miss walking to kids to school and seeing friends at the school gates and quiz nights and girls nights out.  I miss walking into Wimbledon to do my shopping and exploring cool book shops with Amber.  I miss walking Archie to Garfield Park and seeing old and new dog friends and watching him run around in circles.  I miss taking the tube and train into Central London to walk around and see building that are older than our country.  I miss the diversity of hearing people speaking all different languages all around me.  I miss walks on Wimbledon Common and runs through different parts of Southwest London and even ove...

The craziness of spring sports has begun.  Last weekend was an especially busy one with a soccer tournament for Drew and big competition for Alison! Alison’s gym was the host gym for the Derby Classic, which was held at a large sports facility here in Louisville.  The Booster Club funds all of the meets, and all families of competitive gymnasts are expected to volunteer for at least 4 slots at the meet: everything from admissions to timing to set up to decorations.  I was a member of the clerical committee, which entailed stuffing all the coaches packets with the score cards and general information about the meet.  On Friday, I worked admissions for one of the sessions, which this year was all done with electronic tickets and included having everyone scan a QR for contact tracing!!  I enjoyed that session because I was able to meet a couple parents of girls on Alison’s team.  And it involved a lot of chatting. Alison’s time slot was at 7AM on Saturday morni...

  This year is Lauren’s last year of middle school, which means that next year, she will be in HIGH SCHOOL.  Only 4 more years until she goes to college.   We have begun the process of looking at schools.  A couple months ago, she had been doing some research and decided that she wanted to go to Assumption, a great all girls Catholic school.  She had numerous reasons including uniforms, small class sizes, and lots of extracurricular activities.  She and Brad went and took a tour last week (after it had to be rescheduled twice because of snow!) and the school exceeded her expectations; Brad said it met his expectations.  They sent her away with all sorts of swag: sweatshirt, t-shirt, keychain, backpack, facemask.  She was ready to enroll.  However, we are a bit concerned about how she will get to school, as it’s in town and about a 20-25 minute drive and there are no buses; Lauren will also have to up and dressed and ready to walk out the door...