Over here, over there.

Here's one of my favorite pictures of little Allie, taken this summer when Sam, Brian and the monsters had just moved back to NY. Yes that is my foot on her chest there. She was having a lot of fun rolling around on Lulu and Pops' kitchen floor, and I was playing with her with my foot, not standing on her.

This blog like, Sam's feelings about moving back to New York shows and interesting and wonderful spilt. Sam and of course Brian and the boys left a life and friends in Belgium in which they had adapted to new people and a lifestyle and culture different from that here, and moved back to New York after many years away but in leaving thier friends and life in Belgium they are now closer to family and other friends who had missed them and missed some of the early years of the kids.
This blog seems to represent that same dichotomy, involving friends and family from either side of the pond. I think that you are all so lucky to have such great people (myself included) both here in and over there.