Which leads to a lot of - "Uhhh...nothin' much. Tending the garden. Playing lots of bean game. Hanging out at home."
There's the end of that conversation!
But seriously, this is all we are really doing. We are hanging out with friends in our neighborhood and eating from time to time. You know, spending the time to develop relationships and real friendships where we are. Especially since we have no close family around.
No other earth shattering news - which also leads to empty voids in the blog, which you can probably tell.
And sometimes I get the impression that I SHOULD be running around - going all sorts of different places and doing all sorts of things all the time so I have something to say.
But honestly, we are so perfectly content in our little country home in the middle of nowhere.
Do we indeed get out from time to time? Yes - and you can see the frequency in our blog. But it is NOWHERE near the pace we used to have in Paris. And I realized that we are SO very ok with that.
Why?
Well, we bought this house in the country because it reminds of our most relaxing and wonderful vacations in the countryside in France.
Which we associate with a whole lot of doing nothing, eating well, and occasionally seeing a site or two but not at a breakneck pace.
Because that's one of the things we learned while living in Europe, the ability to take things slowly, enjoy great food, and really relax. So we're not always concerned about the "things to do." And our house shows it!! We could really use a bit of fire under out butts to spruce things up! :)
I never realized how MUCH of a toll our lifestyle - day in and day out - really took on our family in Paris. I remember feeling so stressed, tired, and just over run most of the time. Asking me for a favor was like the end of the world. We were just exhausted traveling, buying groceries, speaking French, and raising a young'un ALL on our own with no family around.
So much so - that now, all we want to do is relax. That's it. Maybe in 5 years when we've recuperated from 3 years of living in Paris - we'll go back to that crazy lifestyle where we're running around.
But for now, we are happy to be at peace here in the country. Quietly living our existence.
Forgive me for being absent on our blog. There's just not much going on.
This weekend was a busy one though. We went into the weekend with NO plans except for me to finish painting my bedroom.
Instead, we filled all 3 days with friends, food, and fun. And my bedroom just has a coat of primer on it. That's it!
But we'll blog about our 4th of July weekend later. With no pictures as I am tired of my camera. I am so at -odds with it that I don't even want to take pictures.
