The last pancakes we’ll be having for a while, at least with maple syrup. My recollection is that maple syrup is très cher in the UK. So we’ll have to make do with honey or golden syrup or jam. I’m looking forward to future culinary experiments in the UK (see Bubble and Squeak from October 2008) but I sure will miss …

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We were packing up toys today and Sam decided that each of her Dorbies needed a UK visa too.

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We took a short walk in Ridley Creek State Park this afternoon. Other than when she zoomed ahead on her scooter, Sam has not let her father out of her sight today.

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Sam ended up taking 8 weeks of classes here. We’re both sad to leave it.

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Delicious Thai food at Noodi in Wilmington DE with Amanda.

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Today I finished reading Ozma of Oz (L. Frank Baum’s third book in the Oz series) to Sam, I received a form rejection letter in the mail from Ladybug Magazine for a story I sent them last month, and AC informed me that he has our UK visas and passports in hand. They say March comes in like a lion, right?

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Sam’s North Carolinian grandparents gave her a subscription to Highlights High Five magazine for Christmas. Sam loves these magazines. Each issue includes a kid-friendly recipe. Today she wanted to make the February “banana dippers” recipe. The recipe calls for peanut butter but we substituted sunflower seed butter. …

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Refurbished snow ladies after yesterday’s new snow. When I asked Sam what their names were, she said, “They’re called “Soldiers of the Sun.” Apparently the pine cone at the bottom of the soldier on the right is a sword.

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Also best purchase for 2010. We got more snow today. I never thought we’d be leaving a snowy eastern United States for better weather in the UK.

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