June 12 - It's gettin' real!

So we are now 2 days out from leaving and I am in full hair-on-fire mode.  It's getting real in a hurry! All those little things I needed to do and order and obtain, now is the time!  There is no more time.  This is it.

June 11 - T-minus 60 hours

The girls wrapped up school today and it could not have been a sweeter ending to a fantastic year.  Jacqui had a formal luncheon in her classroom and Charlotte's class played games and ate pizza on the Common.  There's nothing like the buzz of the last day of school!  After each 'graduate' enjoyed their classmates at 2 separate Last-Day-Of-School pool parties, Jack and I high-tailed it into the city to have dinner at the HoPR and see a concert with friends.  Not just any concert though, Whitesnake. You remember them -- they were at the very apex of the tragic pyramid of hair metal bands.

I cannot believe that these guys are still going, and that the don't look at all different.  Not. At. All.  To whom did they have to sell their souls to retain their youthful vigor and flowing locks???  I want to know!

June 1 - T-minus 13 days until lift-off

We've finalized all of our accommodations now.  Rome, Forte del Marni, Milan and Venice.

May 21 - School Winding down, Summer Ramping up!

Can you believe that there are only 13 and a half more school days left!  Where did grade 4 go?  Where did grade 1 go?  I feel like my head has been in fog and I'm just coming out of it!

So, even though Jack is working up to the day we leave, we are still planning on setting off for our Italian adventure on June 15th.  The girls get out of school on the 11th and then we get out of Dodge! I'm excited and stressed and petrified.  It's a fun cocktail of emotions!  Oh well, as long as I have enough benedryl for the kids and enough Xanax for me, what could go wrong ... :)

More soon.