Oh give me a home...

Slow to the computer these days; I'm nursing a cold. Seems that every time Grace brings a bug home from school I'm the one who ends up sick. A cold rarely slows Grace, though it does often result in increased crabbiness on her part. I, on the other hand, am crabby not only for a cold but also because up until yesterday it was still stinking 90 degrees here. Where the heck is fall?

My answer came today when temps dropped twenty degrees and my yooper skin breathed a sigh of relief. Come January I will be singing the praises of the South...that is until it heats up in March and I start cursing everything South of the Mason-Dixon line. Though I like to wax about my northern upbringing (say yeah to da UP and all), I'm afraid if I were forced to endure a true northern winter, I would roll up like a hedgehog. Oh, but the stories I will tell Grace and Julia in a few short years, like walking to school in a blizzard (well, it did snow on the way to the bus stop, sometimes really hard) or the snow that drifted up to my second story bedroom (that's for real). Now that my parents are settling into Spring Lake, I feel nostalgiac for Michigan like nothing else. Last I checked we're not moving, so I'll have to wait for summer to fulfill my longings.

We did manage to get the heck out of Macon over the weekend though. Craig submitted a grant to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute last week, and we desperately needed a break. On Saturday I decided my cold was on the way out, and we departed for Augusta to visit with pals, Bryan, Iris, Quentin and David (pics here). Every time we return to Augusta, I feel a pang of loneliness. My truest friends reside there, and Macon can feel cold to me. In any case, we had a great visit. We got to see David and Quentin's new house and watch Iris and Grace play so hard that they exhausted eachother. Grace never settled down enough to take a nap during our stay there; though once we returned she headed up to her bedroom to rest and didn't come down again for over four hours! If you want to see some super cute pics of the Grace and Iris taking a bath, email me (I'm not about to put nudies of children up on Flickr). Below is the cleanest shot I have.