Not much to blog about today.  No pictures from today, sad but true.  Just still getting in our normal day to day routine.  Thatcher was out of school today because the teachers were striking.  I don't know a lot about the situation, but it all sounds very formal and British.  This morning as I was making breakfast Tagg saw that I had put some pears in the fruit bowl on the kitchen table and exclaimed, "they have pears in England TOO?!"  It is so funny to see and hear what the kids think about London.  They ask me funny questions all the time and have started trying to mimic the accent.

We stayed home all morning and just hung out, I cleaned the flat and then we got ready and went to the cell phone place to upgrade my phone from pay by month to a contract.  It was pouring rain, and the boys were mortified that we were going to actually go out in it.  I was the meanest mom ever and they didn't want take the bus, they wanted to take the tube.  There was a lot of sadness, weeping, wailing, nashing...all of that.  But we made it there, upgraded my phone, which I am SO GRATEFUL for.  They wouldn't let me do a contract when we first got here because I didn't have my UK debit card yet.  It was such a pain, not enough data, wouldn't let me set up voice mail, couldn't text.  It was a royal pain.  But now I am back in action!

After getting my "mobile" all set up we headed to Selfridges because it is my new favorite store and the boys somehow talked me into getting them a new Lego set.  We looked around for a little while then caught the bus back to St. John's Wood.

Tate was done with our outing for the day and cried and screamed the whole way home.  Everyone was looking at me again and I really had had enough of the rain, the complaining, the screaming, the riding the bus and wanted to scream "What do you want me to do about it!?!"  But I didn't.  I kept my cool.  I missed my Sienna though.  And sunny Texas.  And my friends.  And for some reason Mexican food at that moment. Random, but true.  Today was the first day I got a little sad and homesick.

Tonight Todd got home for the second night in the row at a very decent hour.  Shocking, but true.  It is weird, it's like, "wait...who is this guy hanging around during the evenings?  I am married!?  What?!"  It's been really nice, and also kinda weird and we are still adjusting.  Usually when Todd is home it is play time. I relax, he relaxes, the kids want him to play with them.  So it is weird having him around at night and things still need to get done, I am still in rush around mommy mode with dinner, and dishes, and lunches for tomorrow being made.  So yeah.  It will take some adjusting, but it's good adjusting.

We did the usual of fighting the boys to eat dinner, and then getting them to bed.  Tonight I continued planned our trip to Paris that we are taking over Easter.  I am very excited.  We are also planning a trip to Ireland and Scotland after the boys get out of school.  Places I've always wanted to go, and it is exciting we will be able to go and learn and see all that we can.  Still feel so blessed for this opportunity.