meet the new blog. same as the old blog.

I really feel like we’re suddenly sprinting towards the finish line.  In two weeks we move out of our house in Virginia, and in four weeks we’ll be in France.

If you don’t read anything else in this blog post, readers of this blog may want to know that I am retiring my “stay at home dan” blog with this post.  I have started a new blog, “Kunitz Archives,” which will be maintained jointly by both me and Danielle.  My posts will be long, dry, and droll; Danielle’s will be cheerful and saucy.  (Just like in real life!) 

We thought that this might be a good way to keep in touch with people while we are abroad, and to keep a journal of our adventures.  So keep kunitzarchives.wordpress.com bookmarked.

Along with the Kunitz Archives Blog, I’m also maintaining a website with our photos, and a YouTube page with home movies.  I’ve also been compiling some of our favorite recipes, and have added quite a few of Danielle’s favorites recently, so that we don’t have to travel with them and can reference them easily from the computer.  There won’t be any new movies for a little while because my video camera is on a slow boat headed towards France.

So I’ve imported all my blog posts from “stay at home dan” over to the “kunitz archives” blog and will only be blogging there from now on, not that I have much time to blog these days.  Friends and family are suddenly realizing that they don’t have much time to see us and our calendar is filling up.  Sonya and Malcolm are hosting a party for the Newseum crowd right before we leave (this graphic is Libby’s responsibility from the Evite.)  I’ve had some final farewells – drinks with some of the gang from work, and Robert, Elena, and Alex stopping by today before heading out of town.  Matt is flying in next weekend, and Patrice and Zachary after that.   So that’s all great, but leaves us feeling a little melancholy about soon not seeing our friends as often as we like.  Fortunately quite a few sound very serious about visiting us in Paris.

Rachel continues to eat and sleep and grow at an alarming rate.  She turned two months old a couple days ago and I documented it with this photo.  We continue to have the “who does she look like?” conversation – and have finally decided that she has Danielle’s ears.  So we know who the mother is at least. 

And so as not to leave Joseph out of the post, here is a photo of him as well.  It probably does not need an explanation, but I’ll just say that that is diaper rash ointment, and he wasn’t supposed to be playing with it.