Reflections on our 8th Year - Part 1...

Our 8th anniversary in Holland was on November 22nd. We had to postpone our traditional anniversary dinner at La Lantera Pizzeria in Scheveningen until the following night when Jimmy returned from a business trip to Florida. As usual, between courses (including this year’s addition of limoncello tiramisu for dessert!), we reflected on the highs and lows of our 8th year. Let’s start with the lows:

• Uncle Gery’s death
• Eden and Grandpa each needing yet another surgery (luckily, they’re both in great health)
• Digital photo management!
• Foot injuries for both Jimmy and Melissa
• Lack of visitors
• Temporarily misplacing special forks
• Croatian cruise wasn’t two weeks long
• Good friends moving. Veronica misses Fiona, Ziyoda and Miguel, while Ashlynn misses Marianna, Anton and Avery. 
• Melissa: nearly constant bickering between daughters (afraid that I was right last year that predicting this would be a repeat entry), growing pains of new AWC Board
• Jimmy: Not being able to run for over six months
• Veronica: Getting overly attached to someone and then being ditched, GCSE stress, not getting on Team Kenya at school, IB class choices, Rachel not coming to Croatia, 6th Form (11th/12th grade) insanity, missing old teachers
• Ashlynn: Veronica acting like my mom, getting sick on ski trip, English teacher teaching more history than English