We started off January by ringing in the New Year with Kim’s family, we went for Japanese food first and then back to Kim’s Uncle’s house who had a house party. Americans like to watch a ball slide down a pole in Times Square in New York for New Years Eve so that’s what we counted down to on TV.
We took a day trip to Amherst, Massachusetts and visited the hot tub spa.
We’ve still been visiting the cat shelter to help out that’s down the street from us, we’re getting some sweet favourites like this friendly little guy.
We took a trip to the Spa at Norwich Inn one weekend and had a lovely room with a fireplace.
I discovered Kim has never lit a match before… I didn’t know anyone could be bad at striking a match but now I know how talented I really am.
We’d been to the Spa at Norwich Inn before so we knew the drill, we had afternoon tea and scones.
Wine, cheese…and lots of spa time.
Kim has a very nice friend who is also called Kim and she and her husband, Cam, live in Cape Cod where we drove for their baby shower. The weather was not co-operative but it was still the shortest drive we’ve had to Cape Cod because there was no traffic!
Would you just look at these biscuits?
Our Saturdays have been occupied with foster/adoption classes in the mornings and we just finished our second class. The other people in the class are really friendly and the classes are fairly positive so far so it’s going well – lots of paperwork! So it was only right to treat ourselves after class today. We took a trip to a tea shop in Mystic.
We had a Harry Potter themed afternoon tea, Kim was in heaven.
We tried to walk at least one of the cakes off around the Lebanon Green which I’d driven past a lot but hadn’t actually had a chance to look round before, the houses are all old (for America at least) and there was a lot of revolutionary war history there.
January feels like it’s flown by!
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