It's a rainy Sunday and I'm NOT planning on leaving the house today if I can help it.  Instead I am contemplating.  Something I've been doing a lot of lately.  After almost 4 years here, in a few months everything will have changed.  Grace is graduating in May and heading back to the States.  At the moment our lives are on hold til we know where she'll be going to college and how much it will cost us!  There are many things in the balance.  My job at school, my time in Maine, what in Hell am I going to do with myself now that being Mom isn't my #1 occupation!  It's a very stressful time.  Right now, a few of we moms are planning the graduation.  The ceremony and a little cocktail party will be held at and by the school, but we are organizing a dinner celebration at one of the rowing clubs along the river in the city.  After the dinner all the kids will head off to a dance club to party the night away while we old and sad parents will drown our sorrows on the patio of the rowing club.  That's as far as we've gotten. 

Grace found a place in the city that makes Bagels yesterday!  I'm off to have breakfast and weep into my coffee.....  xxoo me