i'm missing california again. desperately.
we really grew up out there. we made our grown up friends there. we started wonderful traditions there. and were invited into other families' traditions as well.
i'm doing my best to convince myself that making a gingerbread house would be fun. but without the pusateris and the andersens and an obscene amount of confections (michael is the best candy shopper alive) i just can't do it. i might have to anyway. the children might gang up on me.

we are making some marvelous friendships out here though. i have a new mrs diggs in my life -- no relation. before we moved to cali she was my friend, though not a mrs diggs. and we're enjoying getting to know a family with three girls -- ages spaced like our three. and the family who shares ethiopian food with us (yes, the way to our hearts is through our stomachs). and many more. college friends, friends from the renegades. i even ran into a gal who i worked with when i was a newlywed just the other day. and it's good. and i'm generally happy.

but i still want to see the ocean.